[KLUG Members] Help! Konqueror driving me nuts

[John Pesce]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 12:28, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I've noticed that when I go to Sourceforge and go to download a file.tgz
> > for something, the download will start automatically. This is fine, but
> > it seems Konqueror now auto  downloads the file and shows me the
> > contents. Not only does it not ask me if I want to download it, or ask
> > me where I want to save it, I can't even find an icon or menu selection
> > to save the archive. It only seems to let me extract the contents.
> > Konqueror has picked up the same nasty habit of bundling a file explorer
> > with a web browser and it is driving me nuts. 
> > Please, is there a way to turn this off??  
> 
> In GNOME browsers there is "Save Link As..." which does a traditional
> file widget save, and a "Download" which downloads to a folder on the
> desktop and does a mime-type appropriate open.  I'd assume similair
> functionality is on the Konq menu somewhere.

There is if I right click on the link to the file. The problem is that
the page with the link is only there for split second before the page
start an auto download. At that point Konqueror seems to cease to be a
web browser and is instead a file browser as if it were a local file,
which apparently wouldn't need a save as.

If I attempt to "save link as" before Konqueror realizes and switches to
file explorer mode, it causes Konqueror to crash.

I would like to turn of this "file explorer" mode when I running a web
browser. Its like MS file explorer/IE all over again.