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Re: KFirefox?
by Illissius on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @12:40

I agree. File manager and web browser should be two apps with a lot in common, rather than the same app except configured differently. Or even just giving seperate sets of preferences for the two would be enough...

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Re: KFirefox?
by Roberto Alsina on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @12:51

Uh... you can do that already.

Please lookup the docs for Konqueror profiles.

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Re: KFirefox?
by ac on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @08:19

We've already done this. Yes, starting Konq the web browser can be made to have a different starting page than Konqueror the file manager. But when you hit the Home button in the web browser, suddenly you're browsing the filesystem. The docs for Konqueror profiles are silent on this subject (which is part of why I use Mozilla instead)

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Re: KFirefox?
by Roberto Alsina on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @08:39

Ok, that's trickier, but not impossible.

* Create a plugin that simply goes to your home folder (that's the hard step ;-)

* That plugin should now be available to add as a button in the toolbars

* On the web profile, use the "Home" action in the toolbar

* On the file manager profile, use the new plugin

Tada!

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Re: KFirefox?
by ac on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @14:47

I appreciate that a solution can be created, but I prefer my one-step solution: 1) Don't use Konqueror for anything but file browsing until this is fixed.

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Re: KFirefox?
by Roberto Alsina on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @15:00

Had you been any less of an asshole about it, I would have published the plugin, since I just wrote it. Your loss.

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Re: KFirefox?
by CE on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @15:29

He isn't the only one who thinks that this behaviour is weird.
It would be great if it'll get fixed.

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Re: KFirefox?
by Roberto Alsina on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @16:49

It's a solution, sure, but it's also a dirty hack. May publish it on friday if I have any free time.

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Re: KFirefox?
by ac on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @15:39

Can you not fix some CSS bugs that have been bothering me too? I just want to see how unhelpful I can make you.

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Re: KFirefox?
by Roberto Alsina on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @16:03

No, since that would involve actual work, instead of editing the example konqueror plugin and changing ten lines of code.

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