Broken KUrl/KFileDialog, etc

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Rob Bayer schrieb:
> 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()
> 
I'm sorry but that's not possible because you've to take a look if you 
can really replace path() with toLocalFile().
I'll fix KIO::NetAccess::download()

Christian