Bookmark > Edit Bookmark does not launch bookmark editor

[Fabio Puddu]

Clicking on Edit bookmark from the Bookmark menu does not launch keditbookmark in KDE 3.
The same works fine inside KDE4.

[Emanuel Goscinski (emu--deactivatedaccount)]

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[Fabio Puddu (fabius)]

OK, more detailed report.
I start konqueror-kde4 from KDE3.5 desktop environment with /usr/lib/kde4/bin/konqueror
I click on Bookmarks menu > Edit bookmarks
Nothing happens! it should have opened the application keditbookmarks

this is the output from terminal:

konqueror(9223) KHTMLPluginKTTSD::KHTMLPluginKTTSD: KHTMLPLuginKTTSD::KHTMLPluginKTTSD: KTrader did not find KTTSD.
QPainter::begin: Widget painting can only begin as a result of a paintEvent
fillBookmarkBar "Cartella Barra dei segnalibri"
bm is "Labo"
bm is "UNIMI"
bm is "Gmail"
bm is "CorSera"
bm is "Repubblica"
bm is "Wikipedia"
bm is "Networking"
bm is "GNU/Linux"
bm is "Google"
bm is "http://wiki.debian...Force/HowToRandR12"
QPainter::begin: Widget painting can only begin as a result of a paintEvent
QPainter::begin: Widget painting can only begin as a result of a paintEvent
keditbookmarks: Unknown option '--dbusObjectName'.
keditbookmarks: Use --help to get a list of available command line options.

When doing the same steps in KDE 4.0.2 desktop environment everything works fine.

[Emanuel Goscinski (emu--deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you, this helps a lot.

Currently I cannot confirm because I don`t have KDE3 installed. But I will test again in a few days.
Could you please check if the file "/usr/lib/kde4/bin/keditbookmarks" is there for you and what happens when you execute this programm?

And the exact package version for konqueror-kde4 and konqueror (i.e. with dpkg -l konqueror) and the version of your ubuntu?

I assume that this is a conflict between KDE3 and KDE4 Variables. The keditbookmarks for KDE3 is named exactly the same, but is located in the PATH, so when konqueror-kde4 tries to execute it only finds the keditbookmarks for kde3.

Thats for now... I will test and probably confirm, when I have my laptop back.

[Fabio Puddu (fabius)]

thank you for your interest

The file /usr/lib/kde4/bin/keditbookmarks is present,
and when executing it from terminal everything is fine.

The version I'm using are
konqueror 4:3.5.8-2ubuntu3~gutsy1~ppa1
konqueror-kde4 4:4.0.2-0ubuntu1~gutsy1~ppa1
and my ubuntu is 7.10

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

The issue fairly easy to explain. Konqueror-kde4 doesn't launch keditbookmarks with it's complete path, but rather just calls the application, which causes it to start the KDE 3 version, which of course doesn't understand the passed option (Unknown option '--dbusObjectName').
However... I can't think of an easy solution, maybe patching konqueror would be the way to go.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This probably won't be fixed for the KDE4 packages in Hardy. I'd recommend upgrading to a newer version of Kubuntu, since KDE 4.0.x is really old and buggy.