Bug 218833

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.1)
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

If one goes to the "Configure file associations" section of systemsettings, navigates to a file type, and then choses "Edit..." for one of the listed applications, a dialog pops up where one can edit the command.

I long had SeaMonkey as my preferred application for the text/html file type, and couldn't figure out why, whenever I clicked on a URL, KDE would first download the file to a local copy before opening it in my web browser.  The File Associations help page was of no use.  Instead, hours of searching the web finally revealed that I had to change the command line from "seamonkey" to "seamonkey %u".  Apparently %u indicates to KDE that the command can take a URL as an argument, and %U indicates that it can take a list of URLs.  If neither is present, then KDE assumes that the command can open only local files, and thus downloads a cached copy before launching the program.

I'm surprised that this is mentioned nowhere in the help page.

Please update the help page to mention %u and %U, plus any other parameters of this type the user ought to be made aware of.

(I've just noticed that this information appears in the context-sensitive help as a tooltip.  However, this isn't enough; it really ought to be accessible through the standard help button.)