Bug 255449

Summary:	stock setup results in default actions but action list is empty
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Jon Nelson <jnelson-kde>
Component:	Clipboard widget & pop-up	Assignee:	Martin Flöser <mgraesslin>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	adaptee, de.meyer.maarten, noahadvs
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.15.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jon Nelson 2010-10-27 23:11:23 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

Plenty of other reports on this. See 
http://dimsuz.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/klipper-updates/
and
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=60347
and others.

Basically, klipper has a set of default actions. However, selecting 'konqueror' tries to open firefox (and fails). Sometimes, trying 'firefox' also fails. So, I went to the configuration screen to see what the actions were, and ... there weren't any.  SO I checked the config file, and it says:  Number of Actions=0. How can that be?  I suggest that the Actions list should *not* be empty if the default actions are in play. Perhaps a "use default actions" button would be nice to "copy" the default actions to the user's action list, or something, but otherwise this is very counter intuitive - clearly /something/ has been configured but the dialog says /nothing/ has been configured. :-(



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Esben Mose Hansen 2010-10-29 09:51:45 UTC

Actually, there is a checkbox "Enable MIME-based actions" in the Actions tab. Surely it is clear as glass for any grandmother what that is about? ;)

Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-24 04:42:47 UTC

> "...selecting 'konqueror' tries to open firefox (and fails)....". 

Sounds like the same problem in bug 261071 if you were using firefox as default browser, although I not sure what "and fails" means.

Personally, I don't think there is a bug here. "Enable MIME-based actions" is not that hard to understand, except MIME the acronym :) . Maybe tooltip should be added for that checkbox.

Comment 3 Maarten De Meyer 2012-06-21 18:29:19 UTC

 >Maybe tooltip should be added for that checkbox.

I can add that. What do you think of 'Offer to open documents and URLs with their associated programs'?

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-11 04:34:10 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-21 04:41:37 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 6 Noah Davis 2023-08-10 19:48:44 UTC

This bug is for 4.5.1, not 5.15.3. so I'm marking this as resolved unmaintained. Klipper no longer has default actions anyway.