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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde] KMail&MozillaFirebird
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-11-14 19:22:18
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Thiago Macieira wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>Henrique Pinto wrote:
>>If your setup for the MIME type (file association) text/html has "KHTML" as
>>the top Service in the "Embedding" tab and you have the: "Show file in
>>embedded viewer" box checked.  And you have selected: "Mozilla" as the top
>>Application in the: "General" tab.
>>
>>NOw: if you click on a file with the extension 'html' in a Konqueror file
>>manager window, it will open in that instance of Konqueror.  However, if
>>you have the same file with the extension 'html' on you desktop and you
>>click it, Mozilla will open to display it.
>>
>>So, you see, the current scheme is treating things differently.  
> 
> 
> I don't think it's treating things differently. You have described a setup in 
> which KHTML is the embedded viewer but Mozilla is the standalone one. 
> Therefore, if you click on an HTML file inside Konqueror or KMail tries to 
> show an HTML mail, it's KHTML that gets the job.
> 
> If, however, you try to launch the program for viewing HTML files (such as by 
> clicking on the desktop or in Konqueror by hitting Open), it's Mozilla that 
> is launched.
> 
> The problem is that people don't want the HTML handler to be a program. They 
> want their browsers to be a certain program. The current KDE infrastructure 
> doesn't allow this (AFAICS).

So, I will (since I understand it a little better than the users that have 
asked for the feature) submit a wish-list item for this when I get around 
to it.

--
JRT

 
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