archives not embedded in Konqueror AGAIN

[Jared Greenwald]

On Jan 30, 2008 12:27 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Alexander Smirnov wrote:
>
> > Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> I am getting really tired of Kubuntu overriding my preferences.
> >>
> >> Once again, it has become impossible for me to get archives to open
> >> embedded in konqueror via the kio slave, without manually entering tar:
> >> or zip:
> >> urls.  Once upon a time, the simple solution was to delete the desktop
> >> files from ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/, but this isn't helping.
> >>
> >> The Konqueror file associations say to open in "embedded viewer".
> >>
> >> Any clues?
> >>
> > doesn't deleting
> > /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/mimelnk/application/*
> > helps?
>
> It did, thanks.  I was trying to delete the wrong versions - my own copies,
> rather than the kubuntu-default-settings ones.
>
> Nevertheless, the problem remains - this is going to break again, next time
> somebody decides to update the kubuntu-default-settings package.  It seems
> I can remove kubuntu-default-settings without losing anything else, but
> iirc it's been added in as a dependency of kubuntu-desktop before...
>
> I understand why this is default - but it's NOT what I want, and it really
> shouldn't be continually overriding my preferences.

Have you filed this as a bug on launchpad?