Bug 379450

Summary:	drag and drop a URL from a browser fails to create a shortcut with the right URL
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	damien.kde
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.28.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description damien.kde 2017-05-02 21:22:02 UTC

Using Kubuntu 16.04, Plasma 5.8.5.

When I drag and drop a URL from a web browser location bar (I tried Firefox and Chromium), after choosing to get a link, instead of getting a .desktop file with a link, Plasma (which module?) tries to create a .desktop to a different URL, full of %00 and using the title of the window. Usually that fails, but sometimes it does create the file.
For instance, for the URL https://bugs.kde.org/, I get the following .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Icon=unknown
Name=%00K%00D%00E%00 %00B%00u%00g%00t%00r%00a%00c%00k%00i%00n%00g%00 %00S%00y%00s%00t%00e%00m%00 %00M%00a%00i%00n%00 %00P%00a%00g%00e
Type=Link
URL[$e]=%00K%00D%00E%00 %00B%00u%00g%00t%00r%00a%00c%00k%00i%00n%00g%00 %00S%00y%00s%00t%00e%00m%00 %00M%00a%00i%00n%00 %00P%00a%00g%00e

My guess is that the bug is not caused by dolphin, but I do not know what is causing it.

Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-05-03 10:07:24 UTC

Works fine here. What's your KIO version?

Comment 2 damien.kde 2017-05-05 01:43:20 UTC

> What's your KIO version?

5.28.0

Comment 3 damien.kde 2017-05-05 01:47:26 UTC

Some additional info: this is what dolphin writes in a terminal when I drop the URL:

kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
ark.main: "application/octet-stream" is not a supported mimetype
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""
kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find ""

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2017-05-11 10:46:16 UTC

Setting version.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-08-22 20:55:30 UTC

Works for me in KDE Frameworks 5.49 and Plasma 5.12.6