Bug 353647

Summary:	Copy file in Dolphin should return regular path, without "file://"
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	noric <g11072813>
Component:	part	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph, emmanuelpescosta099
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mint (Ubuntu based)
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description noric 2015-10-07 10:33:10 UTC

A very similar bug has already been fixed some time ago: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170608
That bug involved the location bar, but I guess the same patch could be applied to the bug that I'm now reporting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy a file in Dolphin.
2. Paste in Kate or other program.


Actual Results:  
What gets pasted is:
file:///path/to/file

Expected Results:  
What should be pasted instead is:
/path/to/file

Comment 1 noric 2015-10-07 11:12:37 UTC

The bug is still there in latest KDE (latest Kubuntu weekly development  iso).

Comment 2 Emmanuel Pescosta 2015-10-10 13:35:54 UTC

Thanks for the bug report, I can reproduce the problem.

This has to be fixed in Kate.

I assume that:
Mime data has a list of urls, Kate converts those urls to strings via QUrl::toDisplayString but without the QUrl::PreferLocalFile formatting option.

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2015-10-10 14:32:01 UTC

Actually, Kate/KWrite/Konsole/... just use 

QApplication::clipboard()->text(QClipboard::Clipboard)

And I actually don't expect /../../ but to always get some fully qualified url.

I am not sure how to change that, btw.

Comment 4 noric 2015-10-10 21:46:41 UTC

As Cristoph says, the problem occurs systemwide, not just in Kate.

Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2015-10-11 06:33:58 UTC

I think even not, that this is a problem.
You get a URL, which is fine, for many use cases you want the url. If you change that "somehow" to be a path for local things, other people will complain that they want a url.
In any case, this is no bug in KTextEditor/Kate/KWrite.