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Bug 305

Summary: Akregator provides no GUI control to ignore favicons
Product: TDE Reporter: Darrell <darrella>
Component: tdepimAssignee: Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: minor CC: bugwatch, darrella
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.5.13.x [Trinity]   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Compiler Version: TDE Version String:
Application Version: Application Name:

Description Darrell 2010-10-01 17:36:49 CDT
Akgregator always fetches favicons and unlike Konqueror, provides no "EnableFavicon=false" option.
Comment 1 Darrell 2011-12-21 21:45:18 CST
This enhancement should not download any icons, not just don't display them. :)
Comment 2 Darrell 2012-12-08 17:09:36 CST
There is a work-around. Use kwriteconfig or manually edit akregatorrc:

[HTML Settings]
EnableFavicon=false

Apparently any app that uses an [HTML Settings] section can control such options through the khtml engine.

Using this work-around, I confirmed that both favicons are not displayed in akregator but also not downloaded. That is, $TDEHOME/cache-`uname -n`/favicons does not exist when EnableFavicon=false.

Still needed to close this bug report is a GUI control. Not directly related to this bug report, I don't believe a GUI control exists for konqueror.

Bumping to Minor because there is a work-around.
Comment 3 Darrell 2012-12-08 20:51:18 CST
The work-around does not survive a restart of the Trinity session. Quitting akregator, deleting the $TDEHOME/cache-`uname -n`/favicons directory, and restarting akregator in the same session results in no favicons. Logging out and back into Trinity causes all favicons to reappear in akregator, even when EnableFavicon=false in akregatorrc.

Adding a GUI check box should be straightforward, but additional code will be needed to honor that setting.
Comment 4 Darrell 2012-12-10 15:40:07 CST
A preliminary patch is available in bug report 1360, attachment 1046 [details].

The new check box is in Settings->Appearance.

The control correctly updates the user's akregatorrc file.

The patch does not yet control fetching favicons. Although the akregatorrc file changes to EnableFavicons=false, the icons are still fetched and displayed.