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.)
SVN commit 1071338 by lueck: add attica kcm doc + update for filetypes CCMAIL:gladhorn@kde.org BUG:218833 M +1 -0 CMakeLists.txt A attica (directory) A attica/CMakeLists.txt A attica/index.docbook M +23 -0 filetypes/index.docbook WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1071338
Git commit 2398a5f2a02fa16ffaebbe3983a3dadbc9c53f49 by Burkhard Lück. Committed on 10/11/2016 at 16:24. Pushed by lueck into branch 'master'. add attica kcm doc + update for filetypes CCMAIL:gladhorn@kde.org svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/; revision=1071338 M +23 -0 doc/kcontrol/filetypes/index.docbook http://commits.kde.org/kde-cli-tools/2398a5f2a02fa16ffaebbe3983a3dadbc9c53f49