On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 23:46 (+0100), Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote:
On Monday 17 of March 2025 22:52:19 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
None of the other DEs have this problem because none of the other developers design their file manager as a Swiss army knife. I am not complaining about the wonderful multi-faceted design of Konqueror. Nobody wants to change that. I am only advocating that there should be a simple and sane way to change the default design so double-clicking opens the file in a separate external tool.
Hi Darrell,
to open PDF, I learned a simple trick: If I don't mind opening the file as embedded, I will use the left button. If I want PDF open in a separate KPDF application, I use the middle button that opens in a new window by default. In this case, the new window is a separate KPDF, not Konqueror. The same is applied also to other file types - for example pictures - left button opens embedded, middle button opens separate Kuickshow window.
I just tried looking at a PDF in konquerer. On my system, the text is not sub-pixel rendered (SPR) like it is in firefox (and probably chrome) or in the ancient Adobe acroread program I still have on my system.
Anyone care to chime in and tell me whether their version of konquerer does sub-pixel rendering?
(If you don't know what I am talking about with SPR, bring up a PDF document, and then using a program like xmag to zoom in on some of the text, and see if vertical strokes are have coloured edges.)
Thanks. Jim