https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527115
Bug ID: 527115
Summary: Sharing a URL from the Android app to the desktop does
nothing - QDesktopServices::openUrl() in
SharePlugin::receivePacket() fails silently
Classification: Applications
Product: kdeconnect
Version First 26.08.2
Reported In:
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: common
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Sharing a web page from the KDE Connect Android app to the desktop does
nothing: no browser opens, no notification, no error.
Environment
- Desktop: CachyOS/Arch, kdeconnect 26.08.2, Plasma 6.7.5 / KWin Wayland, Qt 6,
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE; xdg-open <url> opens Firefox correctly from a shell in
the same session.
- Phone: OnePlus CPH2691, Android 16, KDE Connect 1.35.17.
Steps
1. Pair, kdeconnect_share enabled on both sides.
2. On the phone share a web page (Chrome -> Share -> KDE Connect -> desktop).
3. Nothing happens on the desktop: no browser, no notification, no error.
Evidence the packet arrives
$ dbus-monitor --session 'interface=org.kde.kdeconnect.device.share'
member=shareReceived
string "https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw";
$ dbus-monitor --session
'interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications,member=Notify' # no output at all
shareReceived(url) is emitted only from the url branch, so
QDesktopServices::openUrl() definitely ran.
Analysis (plugins/share/shareplugin.cpp, ReceivePacket)
} else if (np.has(QStringLiteral("url"))) {
QUrl url =
QUrl::fromEncoded(np.get<QByteArray>(QStringLiteral("url")));
QDesktopServices::openUrl(url); // return value ignored
Q_EMIT shareReceived(url.toString());
}
Unlike the text branch this raises no notification, so a failing openUrl is
completely silent. Here it opens nothing, while xdg-open from the same session
works and org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI.OpenURI returns a request handle.
Expected: the browser opens on the desktop - or at least an error/notification
is shown.
Workaround in use: a session-bus listener on shareReceived calling xdg-open.
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