On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 00:10:23 +0100 Ralph Robinson wrote:

As a newbie I thought about that two when downloading Mozilla 2.1 Here is how i as a newbie did it. After letting Kong do his download thing I closed down and went to the location where the file was downloaded (Most of the time it will tell you were it will be download to.) Then I just right clicked on the file and click on move it to. Then looked for the directory that I wanted it in. Before you do all of the above think of what directory you want it in. If there is no directory you do not want it in make one with right click and new.

Thanks Robinson. I appreciate the help. Actually I knew I could go to the temp directory to get the file but this is just horrible UI behavior IMO for such a well developed browser. Konqueror is a very nice browser but it seems to be lacking in it's ability to be customized. With Opera you can can customize so much yet in Konq the options seem so limited. At the very least you should be able to suggest to "always be prompted" for where you want to download a file. Using Linux shouldn't be a less productive endeavor than using Windows but having files automatically download to a directory and then having to go to that directory and manually move them somewhere else is a lot of wasted steps in my opinion. (Granted for a lot of links just right clicking on the link works but this also will not work for a lot of image type and javascript links ). -- Rick

Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2002 05:00 schrieb Rick Reumann:

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:24:56 -0800

Rick Reumann wrote:

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Thanks Robinson. I appreciate the help. Actually I knew I could go to the temp directory to get the file but this is just horrible UI behavior IMO for such a well developed browser.

Thanks to Anders' help he showed me the solution to this.

What you need to do is in Konquorer go up to:

Settings--configure konquorer--file associations

Then in file associations choose the file type that is opening up automatically in the File manager without prompting you. Like for me it was *.rpm. So you go in the file associations under applications and look for x-rpm and select it. Then highlight the "File Manager" that you see in the application preference order and click on "remove" then apply and then next time you go to get an rpm file you'll be prompted what you want to do with it. You probably can even set this type of behavior for all files if you wanted by messing with the first file association "all files" but until I get used to some things I'll just stick to manually changing the ones I want. Hope that helps others. Thanks Anders!

-- Thanxs for the file associations info, Rick and a Thanxs also to Adrers which made it possible for both of us to correct and learn something new in our Konquering Konqueror. Best Regards Ralph Sissy the Kaserin knew many but SuSE von Linux knew more