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Subject: Re: konqueror truncates requested URL
From: Simon Hausmann <shaus () helios ! Med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date: 2000-05-31 12:47:05
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On Wed, 31 May 2000 pbrown@redhat.com wrote:
> 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?
The code we are talking about _is_ called from KRun itself. So we are
already using KRun.
But what method do you suggest we should use to open up a browser window
displaying a directory?
If we use Konqueror's DCOP interface directly, then we have an even worse
dependency. And yes, kfmclient uses
KApplication::startServiceByDesktopName, if no Konqueror instance is
already running.
> > 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.
Use kdebugdialog. There you can specify which debug output you want to see
and which not.
Bye,
Simon
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