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.
Works fine here. What's your KIO version?
> What's your KIO version? 5.28.0
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 ""
Setting version.
Works for me in KDE Frameworks 5.49 and Plasma 5.12.6