From kde-core-devel  Thu Nov 11 21:02:41 2004
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:02:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: file:///
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On Thursday 11 November 2004 21:14, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I saw some commits regarding this, so I'm just asking for confirmation
> and reasoning. Is it desired from now on to see things like
> file:///home/andris/Desktop in Konqueror's location bar when browsing
> local directories or similar strings in Kate, etc. for files
> (file:///somedirectory/foo.txt)?=20

Yes.

> I can understand that this is more correct,=20

Indeed.

> but I think many users will complain=20

They'll get used to it, a lot of other applications use it already.

> and this change might break some applications that check if an url starts
> with "file:" and remove that string from the url.

Yes, they shouldn't do that. If we think that this breaks too much it can b=
e=20
reverted later on.

Cheers,
Waldo
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