Bug 420150

Summary:	cannot open two files in one kate session with dolphin
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Bernhard Koenig <b.a.koenig>
Component:	KDE4 Applications	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	faure, wstephenson
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
URL:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75492
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Description Bernhard Koenig 2008-08-25 19:04:00 UTC

Say I want that dolphin opens all text files in one kate session. For this I change the file properties and edit the "Kate" command into

kate --use %u

(Note that this works fine if I type the corresponding command into the shell.) But if I do it in dolphin and click two text files in a row, it says

KDEInit could not launch 'usr/bin/kate'.

It would be good to have this as a default (invoking kate twice opens both files in the same session, that's why you have the buffers in the left side of kate, right?) If I remember correctly, this actually was the default in KDE 3.5.

Comment 1 Bernhard Koenig 2008-08-25 19:10:45 UTC

My dolphin is the latest version 1.1 from KDE 4.1.1.

Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2008-09-18 17:11:57 UTC

Changing it to 'kate --use %U' and 'kate --use %u', bother work for me with kde3 in dolphin.  With KDE4 it does give the error message, but it actually does the write thing in the kate session afaict.  I think possibly kde init is getting confused because kate will just start, communicate with the other session, and then exit.

Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2008-09-20 15:55:48 UTC

That's correct, see kdelibs/kinit/klauncher.cpp. kate.desktop has X-DBUS-StartupType=Multi so it does not expect the launched instance to die after handing off to the running kate.  Closing to upstream BR.

Comment 4 Will Stephenson 2008-09-21 11:58:17 UTC

*** Bug 411537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 David Faure 2008-12-16 01:15:40 UTC

You didn't mention which was the KDE bugzilla upstream bug for this, but anyway: this is kind of expected behavior if you modify kate.desktop, which says "I will register to DBUS" (X-DBUS-* lines).

The right way of setting this up is to add a new application in the filetypes editor with the command line kate --use %u. When trying this I hit a bug in kopenwithdialog which would save it as %25u, fixed for kde-4.2. The startup notification takes a bit of time to go away, but at least there's no klauncher error message.

Comment 6 David Faure 2008-12-16 01:21:27 UTC

(saw the URL field now, ignore my first line)