[Ieview] IEview with Konquerer on Linux

Paul Roub paul at roub.net
Sat Nov 12 15:27:15 EST 2005


Bernd Schandl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Firefox on Linux. Since I have to use Konqueror for some pages,
> I thought I could use 1.2.7 IEview to call Konqueror from the context
> menu.  It took me a few steps but now it seems to work. First I created a
> little script:
> ---- 
> #!/bin/bash 
> kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing "$@" & 
> ---- 
> 
> Then I put the path to this script (/home/schandl/bin/konqview in my case)
> in the settings window. But when I used this, I got the error message
> shown on http://schandl.gmxhome.de/ieview-error.jpg. Since I have no idea
> about Firefox extensions or JavaScript, I just declared line 532 in
> ieviewOverlay.js a comment, so it looks like this: 
> ----
>          //usePath = targetFile.target;
> ----
> I have no idea why this fixes the problem. Maybe someone of you can 
> enlighten me or show me a better solution.
> 

That object has different properties under Windows than in the Linux 
builds.  And since that's an old line of code whose result is no longer 
used, commenting it out hurt nothing.  I'll make the same fix in the 
next version of IE View.

Thanks!

-paul


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