KIO::OpenUrlJob and applications: URLs

[stefano.crocco at alice.it]

Hello to everyone,
I was investigating a Konqueror bug report [1] and I found out what in 
my opinion is an unexpected behavior in KIO::OpenUrlJob. I'd like to 
know whether this is the intended behavior or it's a bug.

What I noticed is that launching a KIO::OpenUrlJob for an URL with the 
applications: scheme pointing to a desktop file (for example, 
applications:/Graphics/org.kde.gwenview), causes the corresponding 
.desktop file to be opened in a text editor instead of being executed, 
even after calling setRunExecutables(true). As a result, in both Dolphin 
and Konqueror entering an URL such as applications:/Graphics/ and then 
activating the icon corresponding to an application doesn't open the 
application itself, as in my opinion the user expects, but opens a text 
editor displaying the contents of the .desktop file.

Does anyone know if this is the expected behavior, or it's a bug?

Thanks in advance

Stefano


[1]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508936