[Bug 172682] [NEW] Dolphin cannot open a tar file on a smb share

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When Dolphin  is browsing an SMB share like "smb://server/share/dir" and
the user clicks on a .tgz file like
"smb://server/share/dir/archive.tgz", Dolphin tries to open
"tar://server/share/dir/archive.tgz". It can't because this is on an SMB
share, so it just fails with an error "The file or folder ... does not
exist".

At this point using "Alt+up_arrow" also starts generating invalid paths
without the "smb:" prefix. It can be extremely confusing for an
"ordinary" user. I myself for second or two got scared that my Samba
server was down :-)

I am not sure technically what the path for the tar file should look
like ("tar://smb://path" ??), but this does work transparently with
Konqueror in Debian. In Kubuntu Konqueror is configured to start Ark in
a separate window, so it also works, albeit not as "transparently".

Since Dolphin is the default file manager in 7.10, I this should be
considered a regression. A minor one of course - an easy workaround is
to right click on the tar file and select "Open with Ark".

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Dolphin cannot open a tar file on a smb share
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172682
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