Strange Konqueror Problem

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Monday 08 February 2010, Tony Sivori wrote:
> What do you suggest I do? I can post to the six year old bug
> #73821 thread. Which, as far as I know is the only proper place
> to complain about this documented bug.
> 
> The problem is, after reading the 73821 thread it appears to be
> futile to complain about it. They've known about it for six
> years, and one more user complaining about a bug in a soon to be
> obsolete version isn't likely to wake them up.

I don't actually think you can do anything apart from what you've 
already done. If you really need this bug fixed, the only way to get 
the devs to wake up is to gather some users affected by this problem 
and keep bugging the devs. If you can live with it (as most of the 
affected users seem to be able to), you can just ignore it.

The problem lies in the architecture of KIO slaves and the fact that 
URLs don't support multiple protocol specifications. This bug is 
therefore somewhat hard to fix properly, as long as the handling KIO 
slave is determined through the URL.

The one thing you can actually do is switch to a current version of 
KDE 4 - that'll render the bug invisible. KDE 4's architecture is a 
little cleaner as it is still relatively young. A switch will, 
however, cause a lot of other problems, so it's something you should 
really think about before doing it.
Oh, and the switch really won't fix the bug - I can't open a .war 
from a Windows share, for example.

> All that said, you put a lot of your time into diagnosing and
> fixing my problem. I'm very willing to do whatever it takes
> (short of learning how to patch it myself) to do my part.

To me, diagnosing a problem is quite satisfying in itself, and if it 
serves to excuse my earlier insulting remarks, that would be all 
I'd ask for. :-)

  --Reinhold