Dolphin cannot open folders with %3a (: colon) in the name

[Monika Eggers]

Binary package hint: dolphin

I use Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3.5.10 and Dolphin 0.9.2-0ubuntu6.1.

ChatZilla creates folders for its chat log files with the name like the IRC server including the port (if there is one). Thus there is a folder irc.freenode.net%3a8001 for the server irc.freenode.net:8001. Konqueror can enter this directory with no problem, but Dolphin cannot open it, I get the error message "file or folder irc.freenode.net:8001 does not exist".

I created folders with real colons in it, like test:1, those don't cause this problem.

I have installed dolphin-kde4 to test if the problem exists there, too, but I can't figure out how to start it.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Installing dolphin-kde4 should add a Dolphin/KDE4 entry to KMenu.
You could also launch it manually by running this: "/usr/lib/kde4/bin/dolphin"

[Monika Eggers (monikakrug)]

Okay, in dolphin-kde4 it doesn't happen anymore.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fixed in kdebase from Intrepid on, won't be fixed for the kde3 version of Dolphin as it is unmaintained and has large architectural differences.