Bug#308110: Launching on 'about:blank' loads no page; denies functionality.
Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.3.2-1
Severity: normal
Within Konqueror, accessing the URL 'about:blank' (like with most
browsers) accesses a blank page. White background, 'page loaded'
status message, URL in the location bar. All is good.
Launching konqueror as 'konqueror about:blank' does not actually load
about:blank, but rather, doesn't load any page at all. Gray background,
no messages, no URL.
This would be perfectly fine if having 'no page' didn't prevent many
useful options. For example, I cannot middle-click on the page body
to drop in a URL from the X selection. I cannot do 'new tab' at all
(silently ignores it). Many menu options are grayed out, including
those that seemingly have nothing to do with having a page or not,
like 'hide menubar'.
Note that actually typing 'about:blank' into the location bar
(directly after launch) will take you from a gray screen to a white,
fully-functional page.
This bug could be interpreted one of two ways -- either launching on
'about:blank' should be the equivalent of typing that URL into the
location bar, or Konqueror should not deny so much functionality to a
no-page situation.
If the chosen solution is to provide the real 'about:blank' page, I
recommend it be done *without* putting anything in the location bar
(as per current behaviour). This allows typing a URL in directly,
rather than having to delete 'about:blank'. (This is the sole benefit
of the current situation.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii kcontrol 4:3.3.2-1 KDE Control Center
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.3.2-1 KDE I/O Slaves
ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.2-4.0.2 KDE core libraries
ii kdesktop 4:3.3.2-1 KDE Desktop
ii kfind 4:3.3.2-1 KDE File Find Utility
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-6 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.13-1.0 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkonq4 4:3.3.2-1 Core libraries for KDE's file mana
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.4-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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