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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    konqueror url history and local files
From:       Fred Schaettgen <kde.sch () ttgen ! net>
Date:       2005-10-07 22:25:57
Message-ID: 200510080025.58449.kde.sch () ttgen ! net
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Hi,

Can anybody tell me the reasoning for what is added to konqueror's url 
completion history and what not?
konqueror seems to ignore local files, unless they are html-files. So 
completion works for local html documents, but not for other files. This 
looks pretty inconsistent to me. Who decided that url completion only makes 
sense for html files and not for pdfs for instance? They can contain links 
too, just in case that it matters.

I stumbled over this because I wanted to write a sidebar plugin a while ago 
that shows recently visited folders (especially local ones). 
Unlike the current history plugin, I want to display recently visited folders 
as a regular filesystem hierarchy, ordered alphabetically just like the 
normal filesystem tree view. But the tree should be completely expanded and 
contain just as many of the most recent folders so that no scrolling is 
necessary. 
I hope that this is more efficient than the normal filesystem sidebar, because 
it keeps the relevant (recently or most often visited) folders together 
tightly and you never have to scroll in the sidebar or expand items. And the 
folders which are not yet in the list are still reachable through the main 
directory view.

Anyway, konqueror's history manager doesn't seem to record local folders and 
if I let the plugin monitor the visited urls itself, I miss all urls which 
are visited while the sidebar plugin is not in use. Is there any way to do 
that besides waiting for KDE4?

thanks
Fred

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Fred Schaettgen
kde.sch@ttgen.net
 
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