Bug 172131

Summary:	No way for desktop shortcuts like icons to open a certain URL in konqueror
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	krienke
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, notmart, xtremek2008
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description krienke 2008-10-04 09:20:52 UTC

Version:           4.1.2 (using KDE 4.1.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Its KDE 4.1.2 time but even a alpha release should offer a simple thing like adding shortcuts to the desktop. Well kde4.1.2 does not offer a simple way to do this.

Just try and drag in a konqueror window a URL (the icon left from the url) to the desktop. Then double klick the icon. As everybody would expect this should open the default browser with the URL dragged before but instead you only are beeing asked which application you want to use for opening this item. If you select konqueror it opens with a /var/tmp/kdecache URL which is complete nonesense.  In KDE this worked as expected.

Another example is that there seems to be no way to create other shortcuts on the desktop eg. to open a non KDE app with parameters. If there is such a way it has been hidden successfully from me.

KDE4 in contrast to KDE 3 has lost lot of its intuitivity by the lack of such simple things.

Comment 1 krienke 2008-10-04 09:22:57 UTC

Just a typo correction: The shortcommings described above (like dragging a URL to the desktop) worked fine in KDE *3*

Comment 2 Jesse L. Zamora 2008-12-01 03:04:01 UTC

Does this still exist in KDE 4.2 Beta 1? It works fine for me.

Comment 3 krienke 2008-12-01 10:00:37 UTC

I cannot tell about 4.2 since I only have 4.1.3. In 4.1.3 it is possible if the desktop has been configured to the mode named "Display the content of folders" via context menu over the desktop->"desktop properties". If this setting is set to "Default desktop containment" it is not possible, or at least I do not know how.

Rainer

Comment 4 Marco Martin 2008-12-23 23:06:48 UTC

with what types of urls you get the problem? here with trunk dragging an http url to the desktop produces an icon that open the correct default browser wen clicked on it

Comment 5 krienke 2009-01-09 13:20:44 UTC

I still only have 4.1.3 (on openSUSE 11.1) but in this version dragging the link works. The only thing annoying here ist that the icon for the new link is automatically placed in the left upper corner even though there is already the plasma trashbox applet. So after I dragged the URL to the desktop the URLs icon is behind the trash box icon and you first have to move the trashbox icon somewhere else in order to access the URL icon. But perhaps in KDE 4.2 this is no problem.

Rainer