Bug 256472

Summary: Open non-downloadable content in a built-in web browser
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Todd <toddrme2178>
Component: knewstuffAssignee: Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: gladhorn, kschneider
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Todd 2010-11-09 21:04:02 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.3) 
OS:                Linux

Currently when you try to download content stored on a third-party website, knewstuff asks you if you want to open it an external web browser.  This, however, requires you to save the file to your hard drive, exit knewstuff, then find the stuff on your hard drive, then generally install each item one-at-a-time.  This is a fairly slow and inefficient approach.  

I think a much better approach would be to give the user the option to automatically open a very simple web browser embedded in knewstuff, then select the file.  The file will be automatically saved to the same place all other downloads of that type are saved to, then automatically installed by knewstuff.  The web browser window can then close and the user can continue on with the next item.

The user doesn't need to worry about waiting for another program to open, doesn't need to remember where the stuff was saved, doesn't need to exit knewstuff, doesn't need to delete temporary files, doesn't need to break his or her workflow at all.

The web browser would have, at most, the page, back/forward buttons, an address bar, and a button to launch the page in the default web browser if anything more complicated is needed.  

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-11-09 21:15:26 UTC 
The keyword here is "very simple". If there is a download site that requires JavaScript or KWallet access, you end up needing a "full" browser anyway.
Comment 2 Todd 2010-11-09 21:24:46 UTC 
Right, hence the button to open it in a full we browser if you have to.

I'm surprised, though.  The KDE webkit part doesn't support javascript?
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2012-09-19 14:15:51 UTC 
*** Bug 307040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:18:02 UTC 
Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann