Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps

[Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>]

On 13/10/16 20:39, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:54:48 PM Jörg Schaible wrote:
>> Anyone? After upgrading a second machine to KDE/Plasma 5, I have the same
>> behavior there. All KDE-4-based apps fail to interact with the file system.
>> Using KMail I can no longer add any attachment to an email nor save an
>> existing attachment to disk.
>
> I'm running KMail (Gentoo doesn't have the KDE5 version in tree yet, so KDE4),
> and I send file attachments all the time. So I can say it's at least not
> *intrinsically* broken...
>
> Much of KDE4 and KDE5 wind up installed side by side, FWIW. I'd suggest
> cycling through emerge @preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild, depclean, and see
> if that shakes something loose.
>
> The KDE4->KDE5 transition was generally a royal PITA for me, too, though I
> can't remember what all broke...
>

	Kwooty, an nzb downloaded, has the same problem. It's "4" as well. Hit 
the "Open" button, a file dialogue pops up, closely followed by "Error 
Kwooty" -> "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly". File 
-> Open gets the same.

	Dragging and dropping into the main window works and once the nzb files 
have been parsed, kwooty behaves as expected.

	This failure corresponds with a big update of KDE 5 stuff. I've just 
has a quick browse through bugs for the last 36 hours and nothing jumps out.

	Andrew