Saving avatars in kopete does not work if your root is d:\

Christian Ehrlicher Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de
Sat Sep 5 10:37:27 CEST 2009


Jens Peters schrieb:
>> This may be a KUrl/QUrl  path() versus toLocalFile() problem. On many
>> places in  the KDE code there is path() used to return the local file
>> path from a file or local url.where toLocalFile() should be used
>> instead. path() and toLocalFile() return on unix the same path on
>> windows not
>>
>> path() \c:\xxxx
>>
>> toLocalFile()  c:\xxxx
> 
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> thank you for your suggestion. I did a quick and dirty find and replace
> in kopeteavatarmanager.cpp and now the images do appear, very cool,
> though I'm not sure if I broke anything else with this action..
> 
> Where should I send my observations/this patch to?
> 
kopete bugs I guess.
But it looks ok - avatar is saved locally. i will not work on non-local
filesystems because they're using QFile::exists(). So it's fine.


Christian


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