[Bug 227566] New: digikam does not allow smb:// shared folder as picture collection

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227566

           Summary: digikam does not allow smb:// shared folder as picture
                    collection
           Product: digikam
           Version: 1.1.0
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: [hidden email]
        ReportedBy: [hidden email]


Version:           1.1.0 (using 4.4.00 (KDE 4.4.0), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.32-13-generic

if you want to set up a remote (smb) folder in digikam, it says that the folder
does not exist.
Go to digikam settings/configure digikam... -> collections -> "Collections on
network shares - and choose a folder on a smb server.
When you press ok, you get a "The selected folder does not exist or is not
readable".

Same thing at the first startup of digikam, it somehow looses parts of the URL,
trims e.g. "smb://gandalf/share/folder" to "/share/folder" which is local and
of course cannot be found.

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--- Comment #1 from Marcel Wiesweg <marcel wiesweg gmx de>  2010-02-18 20:59:46 ---
Note that digikam does not support smb:// URLs. You need to mount the share
natively.
What I will fix in this bug is the error message: You should be given a hint at
this fact.

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--- Comment #2 from Marcel Wiesweg <marcel wiesweg gmx de>  2010-02-20 15:53:42 ---
Reassigning to kdelibs/kio:

We use KFileDialog::getExistingDirectory to ask for a local directory. The API
docs are explicit that this is about choosing a local directory only.
However, in the context of network shares, users are tempted to enter smb://
URLs in the line edit at the bottom of the dialog. In this case, the protocol
is cut off and only the path is returned from the dialog.

If using getExistingDirectoryUrl (supposed to return local or remote) to catch
this error in a user-friendly manner, I also get a file:// URL back when
entering a smb:// url.

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--- Comment #3 from Christian A. Reiter <chris reiter gmx at>  2011-04-06 21:18:48 ---
Created an attachment (id=58651)
 --> (http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=58651)
screenshot

having this bug still present in KDE 4.6.1, this may be not correct.
you can see a screenshot presenting the file dialog after clicking on "Add
Collection" using network shares.

The "Network" button on the left and all shortcuts to Network shares should be
gone than, shouldn't they?
If getExistingDirectoryUrl is supposed to return a local dir, then it HAS to
hide network access.

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