On 2022/02/21 11:16 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
Hi. Forgive me if this is an old issue.
I noticed recently trying to launch VLC to play a file on removable
media from Konqueror, the file path passed to VLC is messed up.
Should be: file:///media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3
Is: file:///home/user/system%3/media/user/sdb1/filename.mp3
The file association has "/bin/vlc --start-from-file %U", I looked at
some other file associations and %U appears to be correct.
TDE applications do not have this problem, kedit or kpdf just
show "system:/media/user/sdb1/filename.xxx" and I checked, those
use %U in file associations.
Any ideas? Where is the list of URL shortcuts so I can try things
other than %U?
Curt-
Hi Curt,
media:/ (or system:/media) is a TDE based protocol, so all TDE
application understand it. Non TDE applications (like VLC) won't
understand a media:/ URL, hence the error. They need the full path of
the file. If you use R14.1.0-dev, you can right click a media icon and
select the "open system folder" option to add the media using the full
path. That should work fine.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Michele
You can see the problem discussed within the TDE/tdebase#224 - originally
inaccurately named as "symbolic links":