[Kde-pim] URL Attachments in KOrganizer 4.x completely broken

[Volker Krause]

On Wednesday 25 July 2007 19:23:27 Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> So far (KDE <=3.x), attachments in KOrganizer were mainly useful to attach
> a link to a web page to an event (e.g. the course description, the
> conference schedule and homepage, the talk's abstract and the speaker's
> homepage, the map for your meeting, the club's homepage, the concert /
> movie information, the bugzilla URL for the taks in the to-do list, the
> jabber URL for the workgroup conference etc. - all these are real examples
> from my real-life calendar with >100 ATTACH lines in the calendar!).
>
> Now in 4.x binary attachments have been implemented and in that course the
> ability to add http:// (or general URL attachments) has been inadvertantly
> crippled / removed. 

Not exactly true, it didn't work before the merge of binary attachments 
either. It's caused by a simple porting bug (usage of KUrl::path() instead of 
KUrl::url()).

> Currently, you can neither enter a URL (e.g. adding 
> http://www.jung-wien.at/ as attachment will attach the path /), nor will a
> proper link appear in the event viewer in korganizer (using a current SVN
> checkout).
>
> Can the one responsible for this serious breaking of existing functionality
> please be so kind and restore the ability to work properly with URLs?

Done, although I'm not the one responsible for it ;-)

regards
Volker
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