[WebKit-devel] [Bug 242418] opening a URL from kmail uses khtml

[Dawit Alemayehu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242418


Dawit Alemayehu <adawit at kde.org> changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |adawit at kde.org
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




--- Comment #1 from Dawit Alemayehu <adawit kde org>  2010-06-22 00:06:15 ---
You should notThat is not how you change the filetype association. If you do
that you have to manually rebuild(In reply to comment #0)
> Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
> OS:                Linux
> 
> I've set KDE to prefer the webkit kpart by editing the desktop file (set
> InitialPreference higher than khtml's)
>
> When I open links by clicking on them in some application (tested: kmail.  It
> always happens), they are loaded with khtml.  entering the same URL by hand, or
> opening it via a link on another web page, or opening it via the history
> autocompletion, webkit is used.
> 
> I mostly don't notice this, but since khtml has a rendering issue with doodle,
> and since doodle URLs are mostly sent around by email, I am occasionally
> reminded of this.

Use the proper tool, File Associations entry in Konqueror's config dialog, to
change the preferred part for handling html. Otherwise, you have to rebuild
syscoca yourself (kbuildsycoca4) or restart KDE completely...

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