Links in package descriptions don't get parsed at all

[Kedar]

The default Adept package manager interface shows the package website in plain text and user is expected to go to the site manually. It would be better if the links were parsed and could be clicked on to go to the software webpage using the configured default browser.

[Jim H (jh-333)]

Version: 1.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from: Ubuntu Packages
OS: Linux

Quite a few packages in Kubuntu currently have URLs in their descriptions (in the default install, the first package I can find like this is adduser, which has two).

Having to copy+paste the link is a bit tedious. Could they be done as clickable links instead? This would be similar to how Kmail makes links in emails clickable.

Clicking would open in Konqueror, or whatever the user's has their default browser set to.

[Jim H (jh-333)]

Sorry, marked this bug as crash... obviously this should be wishlist!

[Jsvrp-gw (jsvrp-gw)]

Indeed, good idea. Have my support.

[mornfall (mornfall)]

Yes, I will try to tend to this at some point. Marking for 3.1, as it shouldn't be particularly hard.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

In Adept 3.0 in Intrepid things are a tad bit worse, links don't get shown in the package descriptions at all.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Currently links in package descriptions aren't displayed at all.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Unfortunately, Adept has been unmaintained by its original authors for several years, and nobody has stepped up to continue its development. (Though the Muon Suite is arguably its spiritual successor) As such, Adept has been removed from releases of Kubuntu from 12.10 onwards, and no additional improvements will be made to the software.

We thank you for reporting this bug all the same, and apologize for taking so long to respond to it.

[adaptee (adaptee)]

Adept has been in the unmaintained state for a few years. Use muon[1] as replacement .

[1] https://launchpad.net/muon