Broken KUrl/KFileDialog, etc

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> 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()
> 
svn up

Please let me know when you find more functions which are wrong.

Christian