[Bug 240677] New: Bad defaults in choosing default webbrowser

iform at live.com iform at live.com
Fri Jun 4 02:18:04 BST 2010


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240677

           Summary: Bad defaults in choosing default webbrowser
           Product: systemsettings
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Archlinux Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: kcm_componentchooser
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: iform at live.com


Created an attachment (id=47658)
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This is the webbrowser component chooser immediately after pushing "Reset"

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

The webbrowser component chooser does not have a default value.  This lack of a
default value ends up sending konqueror into an infinite loop, opening tons of
windows. (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234620)

All the other component chooser have a default value.  In Terminal, if text
field is left blank, it becomes 'xterm'.  In Email Client, pressing reset
selects the first option.  However in Webbrowser, pressing reset does not
"reset" the form, and it allows a blank field to be set as the default.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
In webbrowser component chooser, select "in the following browser." Type some
text.  Press Apply.  Delete the text. Press Apply.  Now type something into the
field, press reset.

Actual Results:  
What happens is that the test field is cleared (according to the previously
replied results)...however, this should not be permitted.

Expected Results:  
The first option should be selected, as it happens when you press reset in any
of the other component choosers

This particularly nasty bug rears its head when using xdg-open to open a url. 
The result is a completely unruly konqueror that can only be remedied by
killing the xserver.  Upon logging in again, the KDE menu is broken (cannot log
out, shutdown, or restart).

It is a very simple fix.  Just set a default text string in the webbrowser
component chooser text field, OR make it so that when the user presses reset,
it actually resets (meaning choosing the first option, "in an application based
on the contents of the URL").  See screenshots.

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