Bug 441499

Summary: network:/ protocol no longer valid - can't use dolphin to browse local network mdns/dnssd devices
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Jason Straight <j.straight-kde>
Component: generalAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.85.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jason Straight 2021-08-24 19:19:38 UTC 
Prior to the latest version, there was a "Network" category/protocol in dolphin under "Network" that showed locally discovered avahi mdns/dnssd devices [like printers] that was very useful.

It's gone now, and kde doesn't support network:/ at all. It says "invalid protocol"

Currently on OpenSuSE TW, but verified that's gone and not working in Neon also.

If that stuff is supposed to be under zeroconf now, I have never had zeroconf:/ [in 20+ yrs of KDE, across numerous distros] populate anything more than localhost.

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Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210820
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.12-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-08-25 16:38:56 UTC 
This was intentional; we weren't aware that this was useful for anything.

When you do discover a printer with it, what can you do with it?
Comment 2 Jason Straight 2021-08-25 17:13:24 UTC 
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> This was intentional; we weren't aware that this was useful for anything.
> 
> When you do discover a printer with it, what can you do with it?

If you're familiar with Windows network discovery, it works like that. It will show the device, and you could get information about it, or just double click the device and it would open the admin webpage.

So, in my workplace, I admin a network with many printers and MFP's on the network.

It was nice to be able to go to network:/, and see all network printers, expand their listing (which displayed the services they offered, including the admin web interface), launch that web interface link and have it open in the browser.

network:/ used to give you mostly the same info/links that were presented by running "avahi-browse -rat".