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Dolphin doesn't properly use the help:/ kio

Bug #132375 reported by Rich Johnson
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KDE Base
Fix Released
Medium
kdebase (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Ubuntu ubuntu-9.04

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dolphin

Dolphin does not process the help:/ kio properly. The error it displays is:

Malformed URL
help:/kubuntu/about-kubuntu

It does however recognize that about-kubuntu is a HTML file as it displays a huge HTML meta icon in the top right corner with about-kubuntu right underneath it.

My suggestion would be to have Dolphin automatically open Konqueror or KHelpCenter when it comes across the help:/ kio command. Preferably open Konqueror over KHelpCenter.

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Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca) wrote :

Confirmed

Changed in dolphin:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Anthony Mercatante (tonio) wrote :

That's not a bug but a missing feature.
Gutsy is currently feature frozen, so we might reconsider this for gutsy+1.
Changing importance to "whishlist"

Changed in dolphin:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

This is still applicable for the KDE 4 version of Dolphin. It'd be nice if somebody could report this feature request upstream at bugs.kde.org and post a link to the bug here.

Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in kdebase:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in kdebase:
status: Unknown → New
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Changed in kdebase:
status: New → Confirmed
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mumismo (mumismo) wrote :

This is a WONTFIX.
You can not expect Dolphin will launch konqueror (even is it manage some kioslaves) as you won't expect writing help:/ in amarok to launch konqueror (Amarok also manage some kioslaves).
If you want to launch whatever application is better for help:/ and you don't know what's it is, then you should use krunner.
We can write a bug in KDE but it will be closed as WONTFIX.
Currently dolphin will show a message stating that help:/ is an invalid protocol, IMHO this is the perfect response.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Uh, upstream *confirmed* this bug. The author of Dolphin did, in fact.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Invalid → Triaged
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

...and feature implemented for KDE 4.2.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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mumismo (mumismo) wrote :

I have just committed to KDE code to launch konqueror on unsupported protocol.
The notice in the statusbar now is "protocol not supported by Dolphin, Konqueror has been launched".
The upstream bug has been closed with that commit

Changed in kdebase:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

The status is fix committed until we release KDE 4.2 packages for Jaunty.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Fix Released → Fix Committed
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

The upstream bug watch will change to fix released next time it grabs the status, so you don't need to do anything in regards to that.

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mumismo (mumismo) wrote :

oh, thank you. I still don't know how Launchpad works.

Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in kdebase:
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.04
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Changed in kdebase:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

The fix has been released in Jaunty.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in kdebase:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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