On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Bjorn Westlin wrote :
>Hi.
>In konqueror I right click on an .html file and chose [Edit file type...=
].
>In there I add Advanced Editor to the [Application Preference order].
>
>Aftre this, viewing a html file in konqueror will be done throught the a=
dvanced editor.
>This is confirmed by right clicking on an .html file and looking un the =
sub-menu [Preview in] where Advanced editor is listed first.

Yes.
Hmm, just tried that and fixed a bug in the file type editor, which forgo=
t to put Advanced Editor
in the list of "embedding services" because it was already in the "applic=
ations"
(but it should indeed be in both).

>However, removing Netscape from the [Application Preference order] will =
make everything work.
>The strangest thing now is that KHTML is listed first in the sub-menu [P=
review in].

Ah, oh... Ok, I know where this strange behaviour comes from...... We sav=
e the preference number
twice, once for the application and once for the embedding service......
This is getting hairy. Each application has ONE preference number, but if=
 it appears in both
lists, there is a problem. And this is the case with "Advanced Editor", i=
t appears in both lists.
(The real problem is : if two applications appear in both lists, A is pre=
ferred over B in one list but
B is preferred over A in the other, there's no way to model that with one=
 preference number
per application),

What we really want is, for each application, a preference for each mimet=
ype or servicetype it
handles........ but that's too big a change for now. And even that isn't =
easy since this about the
preference for handling text/html as a Browser/View, which is different f=
rom the preference for
handling text/html as an Application....... Argl.

The only fix I can see would be to change the filetypes dialog so that it=
 matches the
underlying design : one list of applications, with a flag to mention if t=
hey can be embedded
or not, but this way the preferences are absolute (only one list).... But=
 this changes the UI
_a lot_.

Another solution would be that when moving an application up or down in o=
ne list,
it moves in the other according to the preference numbers, so that both l=
ists remain
consistent and saving them is possible... But both quick fixes don't allo=
w full flexibility...

Opinions ?

>Another strange thing with the [Edit file type...] is that when I try to=
 add Quanta to the=20
>[Application Preference order] it wont be added. When opening the Edit f=
ile type window=20
>again Quanta is removed...

Hmm, this should work. Do you have a quanta.desktop created after this, i=
n ~/.kde/share/applnk ?
Does it mention the mimetype (text/html if I understood correctly) in its=
 MimeType (or ServiceTypes) line ?
Does running "kbuildsycoca" fix the problem ?

--=20
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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