OT? konqueror infinite-launch loop

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

okay. using potato with kde* as my desktop environ, i browse
using konqueror to site xyz which has a file of unknown mime
type; if i click to visit the file, i'm given the option of
saving the file or opening it. (same situation for a file local
to my file system, of course...)

if i try to open/view the file, konqueror launches another
window (apparently the algorithm being
	if understood (mime-type) then {
		display in this window
	} else {
		launch new knoqueror window to display it
	}

which makes the new window launch another window because it
doesn't know how to display it, and then the another-new window
launches yet-another-new window because...

while they spawn like minxes, i can alt-f4 to close them, but i
don't have much time to enter anything into an rxvt window
between window-spawns. the only fix i've found is to kill the
kdeinit super process -- and then i can't launch ANYTHING new
until i log out of the kde session and back in again...

14839 ?        S      0:00 kdeinit: Running...  <== must die
14843 ?        S      0:00  \_ kdeinit: kwin
14844 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ rxvt
14847 pts/0    S      0:00  |   |   \_ bash
14883 pts/0    R      0:00  |   |       \_ ps afx
14845 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ rxvt
14848 pts/1    S      0:00  |   |   \_ bash
14846 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ rxvt -rv 
14849 pts/2    S      0:01  |       \_ ssh 192.168.1.1
14864 ?        S      0:11  \_ kdeinit: konqueror

who's the real culprit, and how can i repair this situation?

-- 
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:
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