Bug 106830

Summary: Change mouse pointer when hovering over a link with a "new window" target
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: William Kendrick <nbs>
Component: khtml partAssignee: Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: andygoossens
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description William Kendrick 2005-06-05 10:06:07 UTC
Version:           3.4.0 (using KDE 3.4.0, Debian Package 4:3.4.0-0pre4 (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-2-686

When placing the mouse cursor over a hyperlink, the cursor shape changes to an "Over link" hand shape. When placing it over a "mailto:" email hyperlink, it shows the same hand, but with an 'envelope' icon next to it.

It would be nice if a similar effect happened when placing the mouse over a link which has a new window as its target ("<a href=xyz target='_new'>"). This hint would give the user an opportunity to right-click the link and select "Open in This Window", if they didn't want a new window to be opened.

I suggest something similar to "actions/window_new.png" or "actions/view_remove.png" but, obviously, smaller.
Comment 1 Allan Sandfeld 2006-04-28 01:53:52 UTC
I think that would be nice too
Comment 2 William Kendrick 2007-02-01 04:30:18 UTC
Note: Konqueror 3.5.6 still doesn't change the mouse point when hovering over a link that "opens in new window". ;)
Comment 3 Andy Goossens 2008-12-24 20:24:14 UTC
This was implemented some time ago. KDE 4.1 has this feature.