Bug 327035

Summary: shelf widget can't show applications:/ - shelf always empty
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Janet <bugzilla>
Component: widget-shelfAssignee: Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal CC: aldebarab, gavinmchaffie, kdebugs.99.urgwurz
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.11.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Janet 2013-11-02 13:28:12 UTC
Since the update to KDE SC 4.11.2 the shelf widget cannot show any application group from the menu anymore. I can add some group in the settings, it is shown as e.g. "applications:/Office" - but the shelf remains an empty small line when I open it. Othe ressources like Places, Favorites, etc. are shown - just not applications:/...

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Peter Paulsen 2013-12-06 20:56:26 UTC
I noticed this too, the shelf cannot use entries from the menu anymore. Dolphin seems to have a similar problem, also no kio-slave addresses... Bug 327224
Comment 2 gavinmchaffie 2013-12-08 07:11:03 UTC
I have noticed the same problem.

System PCLINUXOS 3.6.64-pclos1, KDE 4.11.3.

I really like this widget so a bug fix would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Morph.
Comment 3 Ivan Čukić 2013-12-08 08:35:09 UTC
Can you test the following:

 - Does applications: kio work in dolphin and konqueror?
 - Does the problem remain if you add a slash to the path when selecting the application category? (applications:/System/ instead of applications:/System)
Comment 4 Janet 2013-12-10 07:39:13 UTC
Kio works in konqueror (not in doilphin, Bug link from Peter Paulsen).

Yes, adding a slash manually does work!
Comment 5 aldebarab 2014-05-29 15:00:32 UTC
Hello

I can confirm that the bug in plasma-widget-lancelot 4.12.4 (debian package) still exists and adding a trailing slash lets the menu appear (ie. applications:/Office/)
Comment 6 Janet 2014-12-22 00:44:02 UTC
When I drag a category from kickoff menu to the panel and choose to create a shelf the address is written in another way, it has two more slashes - and therefore does not work either...

E.g. when I want to have a shelf with the settings menu:
Dragging category from menu: applications://settingsmenu /
Adding category from within the shelf: applications:/Settingsmenu

Both does not work, the correct link would be: applications:/Settingsmenu/

BTW: "Resolved later" does mean it won't be fixed for the 4.x branch I guess?