file:///

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 21:14, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I saw some commits regarding this, so I'm just asking for
> confirmation and reasoning. Is it desired from now on to see things
> like
> file:///home/andris/Desktop in Konqueror's location bar when browsing
> local directories or similar strings in Kate, etc. for files
> (file:///somedirectory/foo.txt)? I can understand that this is more
> correct, but I think many users will complain and this change might
> break some applications that check if an url starts with "file:" and
> remove that string from the url.

Such apps are obviously broken. They should use KURL::protocol() and 
KURL::path().

Regards,
Ingo
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