Bug 8191 - Cannot launch kwrite or konqueror from a desktop item
Summary: Cannot launch kwrite or konqueror from a desktop item
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Balcaen
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Reported: 2012-11-24 11:32 CET by Juergen Harms
Modified: 2012-11-29 17:30 CET (History)
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Description Juergen Harms 2012-11-24 11:32:55 CET
Description of problem:

Using a desktop item (or hitting a corresponding KDE menu item) fails for some KDE components since the recent update to KDE 4.9.80).

- Launching a desktop item for kwrite fails with an error popup window:
    A KDE text-editor component could not be found.
    Please check your KDE installation.

- Launching a desktop item for konqueror fails with an error popup windows
     There was an error loading the module KHTML.
     The diagnostics is:
     The plugin 'libkhtmlpart' uses an incompatible KDE library (4.9.80).
     Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

     followed by other error popup windows if you pursue

In both cases, the string furnished in the Exec=<command> string of the desktop item works perfectly if submitted as a command-line in a konsole


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a desktop for launching "kwrite" or "konqueror" - for instance with with kmenuedit
2. Put this item on the desktop and hit the icon

This problem is serious since customized desktop menus, resp. some of their items, have stopped working with the recent KDE upgrade - for example an item that does "konqueror man:/" and that is one of the recommended and easy ways to get a nice KDE manpage viewer.

I checked (at random) some other desktop items that launch Kde components (e.g. kfind) - most of them work, but that is how I found that not only konqueror, but also kwrite launching is broken.


I dont know which kde package is at fault (probably kdebase4-runtime-4.9.80-1.mga3) - and I assume that the kwrite and konqueror issues have a common origin. If necessary, I could submit 2 separate bugs, my priority goes to fixing the launching of konqueror.
Comment 1 Juergen Harms 2012-11-24 12:01:21 CET
I just saw that the kwrite issue is also importantsince many default file associations use kwrite as default handler for text-files: the default action to open a text file in Dolphin does not work any more
Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-25 11:21:10 CET

CC: (none) => nicolas.lecureuil
Assignee: bugsquad => balcaen.john
Source RPM: (none) => kde

Comment 2 Juergen Harms 2012-11-29 14:39:37 CET
I just installed a large batch of update packages, the problem appears now to be solved: both kwrite and konqueror can again be launched from desktop items.
Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-29 17:24:30 CET
ok closing then, thanks
Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-29 17:30:30 CET

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED


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