Bug 388220

Summary: Konqueror crashes after setting a web shortcut locally that has a system (shared) equivilant
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: Linux User #330250 <andreas.thalhammer>
Component: generalAssignee: Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: crash    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Linux User #330250 2017-12-25 17:48:39 UTC 
In short: Konqueror crashes when creating a new Web Shortcut of the same filename (wich is automatically chosen) as a previous one, but with different Name, different URL and different Shortcut.

STEPS:
I choose "Settings - Configure Konqueror" and then "Web Browsing - Web Shortcuts" and I rename a shortcut, say:

1. Name="dict.cc Translation: English to German", Shortcut="en2de" --> Shortcut="dictccen2de,dcen2de"
2. Name="dict.cc Translation: German to English", Shortcut="de2en" --> Shortcut="dictccde2en,dcde2en"

and then I create a new entry, say Linguee as follows:
1. Name="Linguee Wörterbuch: Deutsch-Englisch", URL="https://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/\{@}.html", Shortcut="linguee,de2en,ld2e"


This will create the following files in ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/searchproviders:
1. en2de.desktop (DictCC, local modification)
2. de2en.desktop (DictCC, local modification)
and the new one:
3. linguee.desktop (newly created Linguee translation de2en)


Now when I additionally create a new entry for English to German, say like this:
4. Name="", URL="https://www.linguee.de/englisch-deutsch/search?source=englisch&query=\{@}.html", Shortcut="en2de, le2d"

then Konqueror will crash with the subwindows "Configure - Konqueror" and "New Web Shortcut" remaining open but not responsive.

All Konqueror windows of the same process are unresponsive with it. Separate processes continue to work.


POSSIBLE REASON:
The reason seems to be that it tries to create another file with the name linguee.desktop in ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/searchproviders.

I got around this crash by renaming some files there, i.e. I now have only one dictcc.desktop file (as en2de.desktop and de2en.desktop share the same URL="http://www.dict.cc/?s=\{@}" anyway) as well as manually renaming linguee.desktop to de2en.desktop and creating the other one en2de.desktop manually using the former one as a template. This got around the crash.

(I first used the filenames "linguee_en2de.desktop" and "linguee_de2en.desktop", but then I also got the system en2de.desktop and en2de.desktop entries from dictcc again, which I again had to rename the shortcut for, otherwise there would have been doubles for "en2de" and "de2en". Using the same filenames fixes this from the start.)


Reproducible: always, following the STEPS mentioned above (top of posting).

This should be fixed so that Konqueror doesn't crash anymore.

Version of Konqueror: 4.14.25, KDE Development Platform 4.14.36, Debian testing (konqueror/testing,now 4:16.08.3-1 amd64).
Comment 1 Linux User #330250 2017-12-25 17:51:43 UTC 
(In reply to Linux User #330250 from comment #0)
> Now when I additionally create a new entry for English to German, say like
> this:
> 4. Name="",
> URL="https://www.linguee.de/englisch-deutsch/
> search?source=englisch&query=\{@}.html", Shortcut="en2de, le2d"

  ^^^^
Name="Linguee Wörterbuch: Englisch-Deutsch"


Sorry, copy&paste error, I had forgotten to fill in the missing text here...
Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2020-12-17 05:33:52 UTC 
Thank you for the crash report.

As it has been a while since this was reported, can you please test and confirm if this issue is still occurring or if this bug report can be marked as resolved.

I have set the bug status to "needsinfo" pending your response, please change back to "reported" or "resolved/worksforme" when you respond, thank you.
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2021-01-01 04:37:50 UTC 
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
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Comment 4 Linux User #330250 2021-01-01 11:55:45 UTC 
Sorry for the delay.

IN SHORT: Bug fixed in current version.


LONG STORY:

I reported the error with Debian testing back in 2017. There was no response from the devs, so francly I forgot about it, as my workaround with renaming the files worked and, generally speaking, one adds search provicers not very often...

I retested this (on the same Computer, but now) on Genoo Linux. The files are created in ~/.local/share/kservices5/searchproviders as this is now Plasma and Konqueror version 20.08.3.

a. Changing the already present dict.cc shortcuts again created the files en2de.desktop and de2en.desktop in the ~/.local directory.

b. Creating the first "Linguee Wörterbuch" (de2en) again creates linguee.desktop (because I have "linguee" as the first shortcut).

c. Creating the second "Linguee Wörterbuch" (en2de) now created a different file name in ~/.local/share/kservices5/searchproviders: en2dendhH.desktop (adding ndhH at the end of en2de). I assume this is just a random number...

I don't know when, but it has been fixed. So thanks!