Bug 104212

Summary:	I would like to open compressed text files inline
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Gábor Nagy <gnn>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nicolasg
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Gábor Nagy 2005-04-19 15:55:27 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

When I am browsing the local filesystem, and am reading documentation (ex. /usr/share/doc/), it is very annoying that gzipped text files do not open in konqueror.

Say I click on a file README, konqueror knows that it is a text file, and shows me the contents.
When I click on a README.gz, konqueror does not try to figure out the file type as midnight commander does for example, it just calls ark, and then I have to click README in ark's window to bring up ark's embedded viewer.

I would like konqueror to open README.gz transparently, as it does with README.

I think when it figures out what to do with a local file it should handle compression transparently, so it should zcat the beginning of the file, to be able to tell file types apart.

Cheers,
Gabor

Comment 1 Nicolas Goutte 2005-07-23 01:40:23 UTC

As this is about gzipped file, there is already bug #19229.

Have a nice day!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19229 ***