Package: konqueror Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 Severity: normal Konqueror handles plain text encountered on websites (e.g. pages that specify text/plain as their MIME type) in a way that I find rather odd.
The usual behavior for web browsers (and the behavior I would like Konqueror to exhibit) is that the text document is rendered in the window where it would be rendered if it were an HTML document, and be read-only. Konqueror, in my experience, does one of at least three things: 1. It opens the document with an embedded instance of some KDE text editor (perhaps Kate). 2. It opens the document with a handler application outside Konqueror. 3. It asks what to do with the file. In case 1, the document is opened in the expected location (the same location where an HTML document would be rendered), but the behavior of that location is quite different from what it would be for an HTML document: the window is really a different program (e.g. Kate) and behaves differently. This can be a Good Thing in some cases, but is usually a source of mild frustration if you expect to be browsing the web and unexpectedly get confronted with the different behavior. In case 2, the document is usually opened in a separate window. It also may take a long time to load (depending on the configured application). Of course, the user interface is also likely to be completely different from Konqueror's. Again, this can be a Good Thing in some circumstances, but if you are just browsing the web and unsuspectingly hit a plain text document, this is frustrating. More so because you get a window popping up when you didn't expect it. In case 3, you get to choose what happens. The choice has always been "save", "open in another application", or "cancel" for me. The option I want, of course, is "behave as if it were just another web page, except that you use a plain text renderer instead of an HTML renderer". But that option is not one of my choices, and I get an annoying pop-up to rub it in. What I would like to see is: 1. The possibility to render plain text just like HTML is rendered (but, of course, rendered as the plain text looks, e.g. without whitespace collpasing like HTML does). 2. The possibility to make this the default way to render plain text encountered on the web (and possibly all plain text encountered anywhere). 3. The "save as", "open with external application", and "open with <program> embedded in Konqueror" options should probably still be available, for example through menus (just like I can save an HTML page or choose to open in with a different program through the menus). -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages konqueror depends on: ii kcontrol 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 control center for KDE ii kdebase-kio-plugi 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 core I/O slaves for KDE ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch1 core libraries and binaries for al ii kdesktop 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 miscellaneous binaries and files f ii kfind 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 file-find utility for KDE ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudio2 1.8-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfam0 2.7.0-12 Client library to control the FAM ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5+etch2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkonq4 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 core libraries for Konqueror ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-4etch1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime konqueror recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]