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Original von bubblegum

Is there a way to configure Konqueror so that it doesn't assume that I want to view and/or extract the contents of a bzip2 file, and just download it instead?

Thanks.

Tom

You can change the behaviour
in the Control Centre (kcontrol) under
"KDE components"
-> file associations
-> application/x-bzip2
-> tab "embedding".
Switch it to "external viewer"

That way konqi will ask you whether you want to
open the URL with the configured viewer or if you want to
save it to disk.

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Original von bubblegum

This is very cool...my faith has been restored. I really like Konqueror, but for a second, I thought the trend was toward the M$ way of thinking...."you want what we think you want"...but now that I can change this, all is well.

It's more like a humble
"We're trying to guess what you want. But we're not infallible."

Well, that's what I like about KDE.
Nontechnical people can work with it if they're satisfied with the
default or with what their admin configured for them. They
can just use it without reading man pages ;-)

At the same time you still have enough option for the
advanced user or admin to change the behaviour dramatically
and in great detail.
And all that using a GUI but still storing the values in human-readable
format so you can edit the config files manually.

I don't know anything about Redhat,
but try
kcmshell filetypes
on the command line.

On my system this directly opens the file association dialog.

The .desktop-files are located in
$KDEDIR/share/mimelnk/..
$KDE_HOME/share/mimelnk

kde first looks at KDE_HOME, and then to KDEDIR
(kde-home is the location of your own kde-configuration, like ~/.kde , kdedir is the the root directory of your kde-installation, like /usr/lib/kde)

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Lat but not least: you can also edit mimetyps by rmb clicking on a file, and choose edit mime type in the popup menu

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