Clicking on URLs in Kubuntu Installer Slideshow does nothing

[Marco Parillo]

When I hover over the blue, underlined links, my cursor changes to a finger, but nothing happens.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1681144

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (124) zesty; urgency=medium

  [ Aaron Honeycutt ]
  * Kubuntu slideshow fixes: (LP: #1681146)
    - KDE SC to KDE Applications
    - changed contribute link to d.k.org
    - Muon Discover renamed to Discover

  [ Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre ]
  * More slideshow grammar / translation fixes for Kubuntu.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Wait, wrong bug. This is still an issue and needs a fix in ubiquity directly to start up a browser when slideshow links are clicked.

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

This bug also applies to Lubuntu Next (LXQt).
Clicking the link to visit our website on both the:
 - Need Help; and
 - Thank you for Choosing Lubuntu Slides
does nothing.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

As far as I can tell all the code is there to start a browser when a link is clicked. In this case, I think the issues come from bad config somewhere in the installer environment for QT: XDG or something else is missing to associate clicking a link with the application that should open it.

[Valorie Zimmerman (valorie-zimmerman)]

Just encountered this bug in my test of Kubuntu i386.

Hardware: https://gist.github.com/d47ddbbf07ce1dd74954efe847bd93ce