KIO problem

[David Faure]

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On Monday 13 January 2003 23:40, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2003 23:22, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, kfmexec's sole purpose in life _is_ to download remote files for apps
> > which can't handle remote files.
> 
> Yes... but also directories?

Of course this can't work.... but KRun::processDesktopExec doesn't know that
the URLs are directory. All it knows is that application A doesn't support 
remote URLs, and that something is trying to pass such URLs to it...

> > So the real problem seems to be that kfmexec is called in the first place.
> > konqueror.desktop says Exec=konqueror %U .... where does the konqueror %f
> > come from? (%f is default, so this could also come from Exec=konqueror
> > somewhere).
> >
> > You said "open with / konqueror" - is that the menuitem or do you type
> > konqueror in KOpenWith? Do you have a file in $KDEHOME with Exec=konqueror?
> 
> Yes, I typed konqueror, which generated an
> 
> applnk/.hidden/konqueror-2.desktop for me:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Exec=konqueror
> InitialPreference=2
> Name=konqueror
> Type=Application

With CVS HEAD? Typing konqueror is supposed to look for a
konqueror.desktop first - which exists..................... oh! but not with Type=Application.
So the problem is that there's _no_ .desktop file with Type=Application
and Exec=konqueror %U. (The application .desktop files for Konqueror all use
"kfmclient").
How is KOpenWith then supposed to know that this new app it never heard
about, can handle URLs? :)

Possible ways to fix this:
* Moving konqueror.desktop to applnk/, with Type=Application, and NoDisplay=true.
* Adding a hardcoded check for 'konqueror' in kopenwith.cpp - yes it's ugly, 
but are there really other apps which the user is never supposed to start directly,
only through another app (like kfmclient) ?
* Adding something like X-KDE-Alias=konqueror to kfmclient.desktop and adding support
for aliases in kopenwith.cpp... (so that it finds kfmclient.desktop when people type konqueror).

The first one is the simplest and cleanest, I guess. What do you think?

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David FAURE, faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2.1 is available - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/
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