Bug 62442

Summary:	konqueror does not open README file in embedded viewer
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	ndeb
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	faure
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description ndeb 2003-08-10 08:12:12 UTC

Version:           4.0 (using KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-0.7mdk)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-6mdk

Go to http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html and right click on the link for any "README" file. Try to open it in a tab (new or background). The plain text file is never openned in an embedded viewer. It always asks if it would save it or open it with some other app (kate/kwrite) but never opens it in an embedded viewer.

In konqueror settings-> file asssociations, the text->plain type includes "*.txt" and the Embedding tab also has the "Embedded Advanced Text Editor" in services preference order. The application preference order includes kwrite and kate. Why is embedded text viewing then not working ?

I know that in kde-3.1.1 this used to work fine.

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2003-08-10 12:05:24 UTC

Your Konqueror configuration for File Associations lists the text/ group 
preference to open in the Embedded Viewer or the external viewer?

Comment 2 Maksim Orlovich 2003-08-10 17:37:41 UTC

For some reason README files are given a special text/english mimetype. So it's 
probably using the settings for that. However, the presence of that type is a bit 
beyond me.

Comment 3 ndeb 2003-08-10 18:20:29 UTC

Subject: Re:  konqueror does not open README file in embedded
 viewer         

> ------- Additional Comments From thiagom@mail.com  2003-08-10 12:05 -------
> Your Konqueror configuration for File Associations lists the text/ group
> preference to open in the Embedded Viewer or the external viewer?

The file in question was a *.txt file which is under text->plain. If you
are referring to the settings in the "Left Click Action" (under embedding
tab), I have tried both settings:
	- Use settings for 'text' group
	- Show file in embedded viewer
but it always opens in an external viewer. As I said, this used to work
sometime back but stopped working at some point without any change of file
association settings.

Also, note that the settings under "Left Click Action" should not apply
since I did a _right_ click to open the file.

Comment 4 ndeb 2003-08-10 18:24:30 UTC

Subject: Re:  konqueror does not open README file in embedded
 viewer         

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Maksim Orlovich wrote:

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> ------- Additional Comments From mo002j@mail.rochester.edu  2003-08-10 17:37 -------
> For some reason README files are given a special text/english mimetype. So it's
> probably using the settings for that. However, the presence of that type is a bit
> beyond me.

Note that the actual file name is "readme.txt" even though the name of the
html link is "README". But that should not matter since, in my case, the
Embedding settings and General Application preference order for
text/plain and text/english are identical.

Comment 5 David Faure 2004-12-07 08:07:37 UTC

The URL seems to be now http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.php
I see no README link, but links to e.g. http://www.schneider-digital.de/download/ati/gl1xp_readme.txt
which work fine here (they open a new konqueror window or tab, and show the text in there).

Note that the *.txt extension doesn't matter at all for files coming from HTTP: what matters is the Content-Type sent by the webserver. On that page all links to text files are sent as text/plain, which is correct.

I assume the bug is fixed, please reopen if that's not the case (with KDE-3.3)