[Bug 168968] External programs for notifications are not executed when absolute path is given

[Michael Pyne]

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------- Additional Comments From mpyne purinchu net  2008-08-16 23:50 -------
The problem is that the KNotify config widget stores a path as a KUrl.  KUrlRequester is nice and simply returns the text entered into the line edit if it is invalid.  But if it is a path or something that looks like a path it turns it into a real URL.  Which means that file:// gets prepended to the path when saved in the config file.

When KNotify later tries to execute that path /bin/sh will fail to do so since it is expecting a path and not a URL.

The way to fix this is either to store the path to the program as a path and not a URL or to have KNotify convert the URL to a path beforehand.  I will attach a patch that does the latter but I will leave the fix up to what Olivier would like to do.