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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqueror and service menus
From:       Pascal Francq <pfrancq () ulb ! ac ! be>
Date:       2002-07-31 13:24:49
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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:59, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:17, Pascal Francq wrote:
> > On Friday 26 July 2002 15:48, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Friday 26 July 2002 15:10, Pascal Francq wrote:
> > > > On Friday 26 July 2002 13:03, Pascal Francq wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 26 July 2002 10:46, David Faure wrote:
> > > > > > On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:41, Pascal Francq wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > I have write a little ".desktop" file for 'text/html'
> > > > > > > documents. When I open a local document (file:/......) in
> > > > > > > Konqueror, the menu entries appear without any problem, but
> > > > > > > when I open a internet document (http:/...) in Konqueror, the
> > > > > > > menu entries do not appear. Any ideas?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Use %U in the Exec line.
> > > > >
> > > > > It was used. I have attached the desktop to this mail, so perhaps
> > > > > you can test it.
> > > >
> > > > In fact when I open html file with an ftp protocol, no problems, the
> > > > menu entries appear. But when I open a html file through http
> > > > ("http://www.kde.org") the menu entries do not appear. So it seems
> > > > that my problem is link to the http protocol. By gthe way, I have KDE
> > > > 3.0.2 installed.
> > >
> > > A link over HTTP could point to anything, there's no way to find it's
> > > HTML before actually opening it (or running a KIO::mimeType() job on
> > > it, which we don't do when opening the popupmenu, it would be much too
> > > slow). I guess what you want is a protocol-based selection of the
> > > service menus. Feel free to add support for X-KDE-Protocol in the
> > > servicemenu code, a bit like kpropertiesdialog already has.
> >
> > But, when a HTTP document is viewed, konqueror knows is MIME type because
> > it has open the right KPart (KHTML, ........).
>
> Yes because it first starts to retrieve the data (KIO::get), and then the
> slave emits the mimetype, and then we know which part to use.
>
> > When the popupmenu is construct, it knows the type of the document?
>
> No (not over HTTP)
>
> > There is probably something I miss in way the popupmenu is generated I
> > suppose.
>
> We don't want to have a very slow (network-dependent) KIO::get() for every
> right click on an html page....

Yes, I understand now.  My problem is that I want to have some specific 
treatment for a given list of MIME types whatever the protocol used is. So, I 
suppose I have to use another approach: probably a konqueror plugin?
-- 


Ir Pascal Francq
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