Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Compiler: gcc 3.3.2 OS: Linux 2 issues: 1. kde doesn't (didn't in 3.1.4) distinguish between hyperlink clicked URL's and file viewer opened URL's. 2. the File Associations kcontrol panel needs expert knowledge to operate. If I'm using konqueror as a file viewer, I want to open the html files in a text editor or quanta by default. If I'm clicking on a hyperlink in Konqueror (no less) I want to have it open in Konqueror! If I'm using Kopete or kmail, I want to have the hyperlink open in a super secure browser window. If I'm using the file viewer, and right click on an html file, I want to be able to choose what safety zone the browser comes up in. (this is probably doable with some wizardry... IF Konqueror supported security zones) 2. I just ended a 3 month period without a working Konqueror or URL loading from kde applications. The problem is that Control Center --> KDE Components --> File Associations requires god-like knowledge to operate General: Application Preference Order: kfmclient_html.desktop is not intuitive and then there is the Embedding issue: embedded, separate viewer, or use settings for "text group" (inheret settings from parent group)(sp) This problem all started with wanting to have problem number 1 solved, and making kate become the default opener, and having nothing work for months aftwerwards, poking settings whenever my bleeding edge nightly build of firefox/firebird was unstable.
I agree with most of your comments. I think http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/designs/the-control-panel/ had some redesign idea for that panel, but I can't find it righ tnow.
I confirm that filemanager and webbrowsing settings being mixed are a problem. However I don't see how to separate them without making the configuration module even more difficult to understand :/
This is still a problem in kde 4.4 We need opening behavior to be associated with the view, not the container. When in web browser view, konqueror should check to see if it can open it, if not download, then present the user with an option dialog of how to open it / deal with it. Then let the configuration options apply for file view mode only. To keep current behvior, let there be one option. makeBrowserViewFileOpeningLikeFileView I came up with a shorter option name... it involved 8 four-letter words tho...