3.5 branch kfmclient/KRun problem with local HTML files and anchors

David Faure faure at kde.org
Tue Aug 15 20:45:35 BST 2006


On Sunday 13 August 2006 09:45, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 13. August 2006 01:50 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> > A Portland xdg-utils tester reported a problem when launching a file URL
> > with anchor: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7863
> >
> > Summary:
> > kfmclient exec http://host/path#anchor works
> > kfmclient exec file:/path#anchor does not work (anchor gets lost)
> >
> > I tracked it down to
> > krun.cpp method KRunMX2::subst
> >
> > educated guess:
> >
> > ret << (url.isLocalFile() ? url.path() : url.url());
> >
> > strips the anchor since isLocalFile() returns true
> >
> > Is this a bug or intentional?
> 
> I think this is an invalid overoptimization. If a .desktop file has %u it can 
> handle URLs and shouldn't see paths. But the line in question is pretty old. 
> I guess removing this check would work still.

IIRC this was because "a path looks nicer than a url".

How about using ret << url.pathOrURL() instead? It has exactly the right logic, i.e.
to only return a path if it's a local file, with no ref and no query in the url.

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