[WebKit-devel] KDE MIME Types

[Dawit A.]

On Monday 11 January 2010 06:22:41 David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 07 January 2010, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > Heyho!
> >
> >  * is it possible to tell KDE to globally prefer webkit over khtml for
> > all supported MIME types?  text/html is only one of the many MIME types
> > where khtml and webkitpart are both listed for support.  Going through
> > all MIME- Types is somewhat tedious.
> 
> I guess this would be a job for yet-another module in `kcmshell4
> componentchooser`, although it would be hard to avoid some users being
> confused between the "choose a web browser application" and "choose a web
> browser engine" configuration modules...
> 
> Maybe an alternative would be a menu item in kwebkitpart that sets it as
> default, and one to set khtml back as default. That would even be easier to
> find, I guess.

Would that not be confusing since there is already a View menu entry that 
allows you to switch the rendering component ? I personally think the ability 
to change the default rendering engine belongs in the web browser configuration 
module...

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> > > >  * I sometimes see webpages rendered with khtml even though I have
> > > > webkit as the preferred viewer for all MIME Types I could find.  One
> > > > example is when calling konqueror somefile.html from the cmdline.
> > > > (Right now: the pylons 0.9.7 HTML documentation locally built; it has
> > > > a http-equiv Content-Type: "text/html; charset=utf8" and claims to be
> > > > XHTML 1 (in its <!DOCTYPE>; I don't know what of this is evaluated
> 
> Well, just use "kmimetypefinder somefile.html" to find out which mimetype
>  kde thinks it has. I bet application/xhtml+xml, just edit that mimetype.

Not necessarily... It can also happen if there is a custom webbrowsing profile. 
This is the same issue I mentioned a while back...

http://lists.kde.org/?t=125675211700001&amp;r=1&amp;w=2