Bug#800502: Please just open urls in a browser

[Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>]

Package: konsole
Version: 4:15.08.1-1
Severity: important

Hello,

when I click on a URL to open it, konsole does not just open it in a
browser, but it seems to make a HEAD request for it, check its mime
type, and then open it in the application associated with that mime
type.

This is causing all sorts of problems:

 - there is a lag before opening a URL
 - when I click on a URL, I have no way of knowing what is going to
   happen. Thankfully, clicking on
   http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debtags/debtags_2.0.1_all.deb
   asks me what I want to open it with, instead of just trying to
   install it, and thankfully https://sso.debian.org/spkac/ca.pem does
   not import it automatically: those are the two first things that came
   to my mind.
 - I have seen an image url open in gimp, which cannot open URLs
 - occasionally, a URL is opened in an application that does not run in
   background, and konsole just freezed waiting for it to finish. All my
   open terminals were frozen.

   Running ps on a completely different terminal I found this relevant
   process:
      /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kioexec shutter %F https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/12046782_622502334558707_4102355954418697241_n.jpg?oh=85a81b658f0f77abede441e203e903b9&oe=5695852A
   and killing it gave me my existing terminals back.

I would like konsole to just open links using /usr/bin/x-www-browser, or
to have a configuration option for what browser to use to open links. I
looked in "Configure Konsole" or "Edit current profile", and found
no way of changing it.


Thank you,

Enrico


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages konsole depends on:
ii  konsole-kpart           4:15.08.1-1
ii  konsole4-kpart          4:4.14.2-3
ii  libc6                   2.19-22
ii  libkf5completion5       5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5configcore5       5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5configgui5        5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5configwidgets5    5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5coreaddons5       5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5i18n5             5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5iconthemes5       5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5kdelibs4support5  5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5kiowidgets5       5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5notifyconfig5     5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5widgetsaddons5    5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5windowsystem5     5.14.0-1
ii  libkf5xmlgui5           5.14.0-1
ii  libqt5core5a            5.4.2+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5gui5              5.4.2+dfsg-9
ii  libqt5widgets5          5.4.2+dfsg-9
ii  libstdc++6              5.2.1-17

konsole recommends no packages.

konsole suggests no packages.

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