Subject: Re: Challange
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 22:05:33 MST
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Jim Cole wrote:
> Dan Burcaw's bits of Sun, 27 Feb 2000 translated to:
>
> >
> >> Do you want *all* URL kdelnk's to use netscape? If so, then you should be
> >> able to edit the global mime types and set the binding for text/html to
> >> use netscape as the default app.
> >
> >
> >> If you want something more selective, you can cheat and create an
> >> Application kdelnk with Exec set to netscape <url>
> >> (e.g. Exec=netscape www.yahoo.com)
> >
> >Shoot, you came up with the two solutions I did. :)
> So? Do we split the quarter? ;)
>
> >Which do you suggest?
> Seems that most kde users will be accustomed to links coming up in kfm. It
> might be confusing if it did otherwise in all cases. And netscape really
> is something of a pig in terms of resources. Not knowing exactly what you
> have in mind, I would suggest just bringing up netscape for cases where it
> is especially appropriate. Unless the functionality already exists, and we
> just don't know about it, URL kdelnk's that support some sort of default
> application field might be a cool wish list request for the KDE people.
For now its just exec=netscape blah blah...
The YDL site is not rendered correctly withkfm..
Regards,
Dan
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