Version: 1.7 (using KDE 4.7.2) OS: Linux Dolphin has a feature of creating URL shortcuts as files. URL of type mailto thus created do not work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tell Dolphin to create a new URL shortcut to <URL: mailto:sysadmin@kde.org >. 2. Tell Dolphin to open the shortcut. Actual Results: 2. Error: Invalid protocol. Expected Results: 2. Let KMail compose a new message to sysadmin@kde.org. OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.1.0-1.2-desktop Compiler: gcc
I'm having the same issue when clicking a 'mailto' link in rekonq. I get the following message in rekonq: Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: «kmail --view %u».
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
More info if this helps ? (still running Dolphin 2.0 on KDE 4.8.5, Fedora 16, didn't test this on any later version yet) After creating a shortcut to "mailto:somebody@example.com", then clicking the file from dolphin, it tried to open "example.com" in default web browser, login to the site as "mailto" user -- with password "somebody", I would then expect, but Firefox just blocked the attempt and warned ;-) Looking back into the desktop file, the initial mailto: URI had been, indeed, auto-prefixed and replaced with the URL "http://mailto@example.com" (so even the :password would have been stripped out), which kinda makes sense as long as mailto: URI are just not supported at all :) Next, re-defining it to "mailto:somebody@example.com" manually (via file properties), just leads to invalid protocol message, as reported here before.
This issue is still present in Dolphin 17.12.3. I'll set the status to CONFIRMED.
Still an issue in KDE Neon Unstable.