On Tuesday 22 of February 2022 13:43:50 Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote: > 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": https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/issues/224 Cheers -- Slávek
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