Bug 67870 - 'Lock to Current Location' gives wrong error when attempting to change location
Summary: 'Lock to Current Location' gives wrong error when attempting to change location
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2003-11-11 11:47 UTC by Will Stephenson
Modified: 2008-05-10 18:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Will Stephenson 2003-11-11 11:47:49 UTC
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc3.3.1 

Using Konq as a file manager and Lock to Current Location from the view menu or the status bar.

When you try to move to different directory/folder, the error reported is 'There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with inode/directory, but it can't handle this file type.', which I guess is a low level error resulting from the lock, but which should be masked with a friendly error saying there's a lock on.
Comment 1 kabs 2004-02-13 12:14:52 UTC
As a newcomer to Linux, I was totaly mislead by this error message.
Comment 2 Oded Arbel 2004-05-04 12:33:33 UTC
Same thing here with KDE 3.2.2 from Mandrake RPMS  - this is really confusing for new users, and I get hit by it often, after showing some poor soul how does "lock to current location" helps you do a lot of interesting stuff.

I guess it shouldn't be hard to change the text to something more descriptive of the actuall problem. 
A better solution, IMO, is to just disable the "up directory" and other directory traversal buttons when in "lock mode"
Comment 3 Martin Koller 2004-06-12 18:01:08 UTC
This report is similar to the closed http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22605

Still in current CVS HEAD:
If you open konqi with a single view, the "lock" action is disabled, but if you open a second _Tab_, then suddenly the "lock" action is available again, which then leads to the error when one tries to change the dir (e.g. up, home, etc).
Comment 4 Martin Koller 2006-11-26 11:40:52 UTC
Can still reproduce with 3.5.5
Comment 5 mario tuling 2008-05-04 20:31:40 UTC
in 4.0.3 kubuntu a new dolphin window is opened, i guess this is ok
Comment 6 Médéric Boquien 2008-05-10 18:35:49 UTC
Thank you for your bug report. I confirm that konqueror now works properly in KDE SVN trunk (r806088). I close the bug as WORKSFORME.