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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KGet imported to the CVS
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-02-14 11:40:28
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On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:00:57PM +0100, Matt Koss wrote:
> On So, 13 feb 1999, David Faure wrote:
> >
> >> Regarding the saving of images, I would even take it one step further.  When a user
> >> asks to save, there should be an option box on the "Save" dialog that allows to
> >> user to pull all the images from this web page as well.  I have spoken to many
> >> users and this is actually what they expect when they save the page ( save
> >> everything they see ...)  One possible obstacle for this feature is that many
> >> images on web pages are linked with a relative path.  So saving them would either
> >> require creating the relative paths or modifying the html <IMG SRC= ...> info to
> >> reflect the new address.  Maybe this is too much, but I think it is worth
> >> investigating.
> >This is exactly what kget does already. Hence the discussion about adding a 
> >"copy (kget)" - or something clearer - so that copying gets the images too.
> >But you're right, saving the page should allow to do that too.
> 
> Nope, kget does not do it yet, sorry.
> I even don't thinkthat I am ging to implement this thing in kget.
> 
> I mean, IMO it's more suitable to put this into kfm. When user chooses Save
> document source, there would be an option to save it with images.
> Otherwise, kget would have to parse the html source to check for images etc.

Ah - I thought it did it (as e.g. wget does).

I don't think it's a good idea to put it in kfm/konqueror, because there
should be a KDE utility that does what wget does : recursive retrieval of a 
Web site. kfm "Save page" will only try to save the current page, not the
whole site - it's not kfm purpose I think.
If kget doesn't do it, then I guess somebody will make another
tool that implement that as well. So it would be better in a library than
in kfm/konqueror itself.

Anybody wants to start a wget wrapper for KDE ?

(if possible with a Corba interface, so that kfm/konqueror can use it for its
"Save as" option :) )

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|  David FAURE                                                       |
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