Version: 4.0 (using KDE 3.1.92 (CVS >= 20031007), compiled sources) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.21 The feature to color html links on MMB click works fine on developer.kde.org; but needs and explicit reload on this Wiki... To reproduce: Go to: http://gnuarch.org/bin/view/Main/ Use your mddle mouse button to open a link that is colored blue. After the new window loaded, move your mouse to the first; and hover over the link. I expected to see the link change color, it does not. Now reload the html in the first window (the one with the link I posted above). You will see the color now did get the new color.
I seem to misunderstand something fundamental. On MMB a new window is opened with the link and no repaint is scheduled, so you don't see the changed colour. But this is the same on every web page with every browser afaik. Also on developer.kde.org/ the links aren't redrawn on MMB.
Right; I noticed two things; 1) I used tabbed browsing; so a new tab is opened when I MMB (causing a redraw since its the second tab*) 2) underline-on-hover seems to be broken on my machine, so I can't test if that was the redrawing I used to know. While these two points in mind I tried the new konq and an old one (laptop) and notice that the redraw done as I was used to did not happen anymore on HEAD. So the result of less redrawing (which is good!) is a lower usability experience since I have less feedback while browsing multiple links. On top of that the coloring of links (aka redraw) is not consistent; opening a allow-cookie window also caused a redraw for instance. I'll leave to you if you think this is a usability question or not; if not, please close. *] that was on an old version; the redraw happens before the page is opened in HEAD, so the link stays unvisited.
I consider it not a bug (as I said, this was never consistent and does the very same in e.g. mozilla - haven't tried IE)
Duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24820 ***