On Tue, 30 May 2000 pbrown@redhat.com wrote:

> OK I'm working on hunting this down but if someone more familiar with the
> code can find it faster, even better.
> 
> If I launch a .desktop file of type Link with the URL:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=344797145

[ description of problems deleted ]

OK!  I found it.  Here's the offender, in class KFileManager (krun.cpp):

/****************/
bool KFileManager::openFileManagerWindow( const KURL& _url )
{
  QString cmd = "kfmclient openURL ";
  cmd += _url.url();
  system( cmd );
  return true; // assume kfmclient succeeded
}

Problems with this function?

1. it is in kdelibs, but makes a call into a kdebase program (kfmclient)
2. it has high overhead because it calls kfmclient.  Is there a way we
  could do a more direct call? The code here is short and sweet, which is
  why it was written, but it results in what turns out to be a very long
  path.  I must be missing something.
3. the cmd wasn't quoted (I'm fixing, the URL now works fine).

Let's discuss.

--
  Preston Brown
  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat, Inc.