One small Gutsy problem

Karl karlok at fastmail.fm
Fri Oct 26 01:43:11 UTC 2007


kk wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> I can't figure out how to make Konqueror go back to opening .tgz and .zip
>> archives in the embedded window.
>>
>> I checked that the File Associations said to open in the embedded window, I
>> removed the kubuntu-default .desktop files, and opening a URL of
>> tar:/filename works fine, but just clicking on the archive always opens
>> ark.
>>
>> Opened a KDE session for a brand new user, same problem.  
>>
>> I just can't imagine why _anyone_ would want to open embeddable apps in
>> separate windows... :-)
>>   
> Found this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_(computing) :
> 
> "Ark can be integrated into Konqueror 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror>, through KParts 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPart> technology, if the appropriate 
> plugin from /kdeaddons/ package is installed. After installing it, files 
> can be added or extracted in/from the archives using Konqueror's context 
> menus."
> 
> kdeaddons is not installed on my systems.  I haven't tried it, but it m
> 
Oops, I hit send by mistake.  I was going to say it might be worth a try.

Karl




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