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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: slight change to "dropping links" on kdesktop
From:       <pbrown () redhat ! com>
Date:       2000-05-30 14:22:47
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, David Faure wrote:

> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:41:59PM -0400, pbrown@redhat.com wrote:
> > right now, when you drop a link from netscape or konqi on the desktop,
> > and select "link," you end up with a desktop file for that URL with a name
> > set to the URL.  What would be much cooler is if the name was set to the
> > actual title of the HTML page.
> > 
> > How bad would this be to implement?
> 
> Not too hard I think. But this requires changing the signature of
> bool KIO::link( const KURL::List &srcUrls, const KURL & destDir )
> so that you can specify the name of the destination link, since the
> default implementation is
> // The destination URL is the destination dir + the filename

The way I thought about doing it would be for kdesktop to see that the
link is a http:// protocol address, and use kio_http to go and grab the
document title, instead of encoding the title in the signature of
KIO::link.

What do you think of that approach?

-- 
  Preston Brown
  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat, Inc. 

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