Bug 372744

Summary: New version installed 4.14.16 : when I type an URL it opens 100 windows
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: davidcaudurban
Component: generalAssignee: Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: major CC: luigi.toscano
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.14.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mint (Debian based)   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description davidcaudurban 2016-11-21 16:02:48 UTC 
Hello, 

I installed Linux Mint 18 KDE today, and tried to run Konqueror as my file manager. 

But it appears that Konqueror cannot open my Home Folder.
Cannot display the left panel.
When I type the URL of the Home Folder, it opens 100 windows.

Seems to run normally as a web browser.
From a web page, when I click on the icon Home Folder, a msge appears : "There appears to be a configuration error. You have associated Konqueror with inode/directory, but it cannot handle this file type".

Does this mean that Konqueror cannot be used as the file manager any more ?

Thanks for your answer, 

David
Comment 1 Luigi Toscano 2017-01-15 17:05:11 UTC 
This is a distribution issue:
- Konqueror in the last years has used a common library provided by Dolphin in order to handle the file management part;
- the version of Konqueror that you use is based on Qt4 (and kdelibs4), while the Dolphin uses Qt5 already, so Konqueror can't use the library from Dolphin;
- distributions provides a package usually called "dolphin4" which contains the last version of the Dolphin library based on kdelibs4 so that Konqueror can use it; this is not needed with the more recent version of Konqueror, which was ported to Qt5.

See
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=232414#p1249736

So please install the dolphin4 package (or equivalent in your distribution).