From kde-core-devel  Wed May 31 12:41:17 2000
From: <pbrown () redhat ! com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:41:17 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: konqueror truncates requested URL
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=95977691512030

On Wed, 31 May 2000, David Faure wrote:

> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:54:19AM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 May 2000 pbrown@redhat.com wrote:
> > 
> > > 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)
> > 
> > I guess the "right" solution would be to let the user choose his favourite
> > browser and use that one to open up the window.
> 
> Not exactly browser, but file manager. As the name says,
> this is used when the user wants to 'run' (i.e. clicks on, i.e. KRun)
> a directory. How do you want to avoid the dependency to kdebase ?
> Only konqueror (in the KDE stuff) can open and display a directory.

So why are we using kfmclient to do this, instead of KRun or the
KApp:startServiceBy... methods?  Or one of the other ways to launch things
that I have forgotten about?

> Yeah. "kfmclient not found" is no better than "no application found
> for inode/directory", is it ?

Not sure.  Both kind of suck.

> Except if we want configurability here, but this is not what you
> wanted to point out, is it ?

No.

> > Why is it hight overhead to call kfmclient? I don't see any faster way to
> > open up a new konqueror browser window.

Starts up a shell process, starts executing a new binary (which has all
the startup overhead of any other KDE program).

> Now the real question is : why the h*** is the URL above calling
> openFileManagerWindow ??? It's not a directory, is it ?

No, and that's why I had some major problems finding out where I was
supposed to be looking.  I'm even now not clear on the code path, and so
you can see why I am so confused.  Here's the .desktop file I clicked:

[Desktop Entry] 
Icon=www 
Type=Link
URL=http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=344797145 

and it ends up doing a whole lot of shit (we need to cut down on the
debugging messages, and only leave in the useful ones, there is so much
glop in my .xsession-errors file that it is a miracle I found this at
all), but ends up getting into this function.

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