Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages With Internet Explorer, you can drag the page's url to the desktop, or send an url by mail. The file name created by IE ends is like xxxx.URL and contains: [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.google.fr/ Modified=20771FC8F0F8C20129 or sometimes : [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.google.fr/ [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.google.fr/ Modified=10CBFCBFF0F8C20141 I couldn't open this file conqueror. I needed to open it with an editor ans cut/paste the url.
Created attachment 1291 [details] sample files 2 samples files: one from a drag from the adress bar, one from a drag from a picture using WinXP-IE6
as long as IE and konqueror do not run on the same platform, this basicly only adds bloat to add such a feature. You can get the URL out of it, so any code around that would be featurities.
For information, keditbookmarks can import such files.
About comment 2: it is not very easy for end-users to edit a file, and cutting an url. (i have 2 of them in front of me, and they receive a lot of mail with sutch attachement) If you think this features is not good, maybe, in the default setup, one could map .URL with the appropriate application. (KWrite or keditbookmarks or ..?)
About comment 4: how about adding a wish for showing URLs in read-only (aka preview) text files as links in general in KDE? This could solve your problem partially and might be helpful in many other cases as well. Or, in reference to comment 3, *.URL files starting keditbookmarks?
*** Bug 156491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***