Bug 356198 - Creating new link to application is missing the Application tab (KNewFileMenu, KPropertiesDialog)
Summary: Creating new link to application is missing the Application tab (KNewFileMenu...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 363673
Alias: None
Product: kio
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
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Reported: 2015-12-02 15:05 UTC by bogdan
Modified: 2016-07-24 09:57 UTC (History)
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Description bogdan 2015-12-02 15:05:31 UTC
After the upgrades to 5.4.3, Crating new link to application is missing the Application tab

This is bug manifest itself either if you try to create a new link to an application in the Deskiop folder view or in Dolphin. Probably they use the same code.

This bug was not present in 5.4.2.
Comment 1 bogdan 2015-12-02 15:11:49 UTC
I believe that the bug is due to the fact that the "Location" instead being in an editable place such as /home/<username>/Desktop is automatically chosen /kio5/newfile-templates/.source, which  obviously does not exist. 

Actually the Location problem manifests itself in other occasions, for instance when starting certain applications from older links.  I think that code needs to be scrutinized thoroughly.
Comment 2 Eike Hein 2015-12-02 15:32:15 UTC
It's showing up and working fine for me. Some sort of distro issue with the templates not being installed?
Comment 3 bogdan 2015-12-02 16:29:22 UTC
(In reply to Eike Hein from comment #2)
> It's showing up and working fine for me. Some sort of distro issue with the
> templates not being installed?

I am on OpenSuSE Leap 42.1 using the KF5 updates to 5.4.3. On my Laptop I have the original verision 5.4.2 and does not have this issue. In addition the new version is a lot more unstable. If I 
turn off the monitor the windows decoration disappear and all the windows are minimized. Weird! No such issues in 5.4.2
Comment 4 bogdan 2015-12-02 16:34:02 UTC
I am not the only one having the issue. See below:

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=129585&sid=49d32f35a1f946534bb8301f11d0ea4b
Comment 5 Wolfgang Bauer 2016-02-06 13:38:09 UTC
(In reply to Eike Hein from comment #2)
> It's showing up and working fine for me. Some sort of distro issue with the
> templates not being installed?

Well, since 5.16.0 there should not be any template files necessary for this:
https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kio.git&a=commit&h=6ec29b03e4433c93bf5c2e5da977d019440020a9

But apparently loading the .source files from the embedded .qrc doesn't work it seems.
Comment 6 Wolfgang Bauer 2016-02-06 13:45:40 UTC
PS, forgot to add:
This is still an issue with Frameworks 5.18.0.

And it happens with all supplied templated. Creating a text or html file does work, but the corresponding .source file is not being copied, so the new file is just empty.
Comment 7 nicholas 2016-02-23 14:26:19 UTC
*** Bug 359581 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Wolfgang Bauer 2016-07-24 09:57:23 UTC
A newer bug report has been opened for this problem, and it has been fixed recently.
So marking this one as duplicate...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 363673 ***