Bug 142829

Summary: Launch bug report wizard gives error 'could not launch the browser: Could not find service kfmclient'
Product: [Applications] korganizer Reporter: Geert Poels <geert.poels>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: christophe
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Geert Poels 2007-03-11 14:31:43 UTC 
Version:           3.5.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I wanted to report my first bug on KOrganizer.
So I selected menu Help\Report Bug.
This opened the 'submit bug report' dialog.
Clicking the button 'Launch bug report wizard' gave the error : 
'could not launch the browser: Could not find service kfmclient'

I'm using Ubuntu with a Gnome desktop environment and only KOrganizer installed (+libs).
Firefox as default browser didn't open. (which I expected it would)
Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2007-03-12 19:40:53 UTC 
kfmclient comes from kdebase. Does the "launch bug report wizard" work in any other kde apps?
Comment 2 Geert Poels 2007-03-12 21:06:53 UTC 
I have Krusader, but that uses a different mechanism.
I can install another one, which do you suggest ?
Comment 3 Philip Rodrigues 2007-03-13 23:23:20 UTC 
Anything :-). Konqueror, kmail, one of the kdegames...
Comment 4 Geert Poels 2007-03-14 17:39:54 UTC 
It works in Konqueror, it just launches itself... :-D

Krusader has another bug reporting mechanism (can't these be unified ??)
Configure email button does nothing.
Send button shows : 'unable to send'.
Comment 5 Christophe Marin 2008-11-19 00:43:16 UTC 
Reporting bugs should be working as expected in KDE4. Closing.
Comment 6 Geert Poels 2009-02-15 09:31:21 UTC 
Still occurs with 4.1.4 (from Kget)
Comment 7 Christophe Marin 2009-02-15 11:42:07 UTC 
What does this return in you run in from a terminal:

kfmclient newTab http://www.kde.org
Comment 8 Geert Poels 2009-02-15 11:51:50 UTC 
The program 'kfmclient' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install konqueror
bash: kfmclient: command not found

-> I installed konqueror, so the page got loaded there.
Isn't there a way to launch the default browser and direct it to whatever page ?
Comment 9 Christophe Marin 2009-02-15 11:56:52 UTC 
Thank you for your feedback, this issue was fixed in KDE 4.2 by using another mechanism when kfmclient is not installed.

See: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&sortby=date&revision=896218