Broken KUrl/KFileDialog, etc

[Rob Bayer]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Christian Ehrlicher
<Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de> wrote:
> Rob Bayer schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>   Does KFileDialog/KUrl seem broken to anyone else?  In particular it
>> seems to add a / in front of C:/path/to/file so that opening the file
>> makes it open /C:/path/to/file and thus fails.  At first I thought it
>> was just my code but then for kicks I tried compiling the tutorial at
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Saving_and_loading and
>> get the same error.
>>
>> I looked through the KUrl source and it looks like the initial / is
>> getting added at line 1706 but the comment there says this is
>> intentional.  Thoughts?
>>
> You're probably using the wrong function to retrieve the local file.
> You've to use KUrl::toLocalFile() and not KUrl::path()
> I fixed all places I found but there may be others.
>
> Christian
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In my code I do, but the problem is that several KDE functions
apparently don't do this correctly.  For example, take a look at the
tutorial I linked to above.  In that case, the app itself only calls
KIO::NetAccess::download(fileNameFromDialog, tmpFile, this) and it's
that call that makes it fail.  I've encountered similar things with
other API calls, so I was hoping that somebody had some fix that would
work for all of them instead of going through _all_ the kdelibs source
and looking for .path() calls that should be .toLocalFile()

Rob