Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3459 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob wrote:
> When I click on an external link in a kmail or knews message, the link gets 
> copied to a temporary file in /var/temp/something-or-other, which is then 

/var/tmp/_whatever_

Only Windows calls their temporary directories "temp"

In Unix and Linux, it's always /tmp or /var/tmp
or /some/other/place/tmp


> opened in the browser. This happens with both Konqueror and Firefox as 
> default browser. What I would like (and expect) is for the browser to go 
> directly to the external link.

Are you planning on rewriting Konqueror and Firefox?

> I'm using squid as a local proxy. Could it be something to
> do with squid, or is it a KDE setting?

It's the application code.

The files wouldn't be created in /var/tmp if the
browsers weren't creating them.



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