Re: Not working, Link from Kmail -> Konqoerror

Bruce MacArthur <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 04 June 2009 15:39, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 04 June 2009, Bruce MacArthur wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:23, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 2009-06-04, Günther J. Niederwimmer wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > is it possible to configure KMail / Konquerror to work
> > > > together?
> > > >
> > > > My Problem, when I start a Link from a EMail I have in the
> > > > Konquerror the /var/tmp/kdecache-xxxx/ path and not the correct
> > > > URL?
> > > >
> > > > openSuSE 11.1 KDE 4.2.4
> > >
> > > KMail uses a KDE service to launch applications for URLs so this
> > > has to be fixed at KDE settings level.
> > >
> > > The symptoms indicate that the file association of the file type
> > > of the link (text/html for normal web pages), or the global web
> > > browser setting, use a command which does not include %u as one
> > > of its parameters.
> > >
> > > For example on my system I have
> > > System Settings -> Advanced Tab -> File associations
> > > for text/html Konqueror on top of the list
> > > If I select this entry and click "Edit" I see that the command is
> > > kfmclient openURL %u text/html
> > >
> > > where %u will be replaced with the URL
> > >
> > > This command is usually directly taken from a .desktop file
> > > installed by the application packages so it should be correct.
> > > Manual modifications to file associations could have changed
> > > that.
> >
> > I have long had the very same problem under openSUSE 10.2.  I am
> > migrating to Kubuntu Jaunty (9.04) and do not yet know quite what
> > to expect in this regard.  A previous off-list exchange on the
> > topic reads as follows.  I would note that, although I think that I
> > have found the area cited by Kevin, everything actually reads quite
> > differently -- and the /var... that is used by Konqueror does NOT
> > appear!  I do NOT yet understand how to make things function
> > "normally"!!!  Any further specific remarks would be GREATLY
> > appreciated!
>
> Maybe there are some old desktop files in ~/.kde/share/applnk or in
> ~/.local/share/applications.
>
Thank you, Ingo.  Could you tell us how to distinguish "old" 
from "proper" in either folder (or in both!)?



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