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Bug 1088925

Summary: Opening a terminal in Konqueror / Dolphin does not inherit environment variables
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Ron van der Wees <rvdwees>
Component: kdelibsAssignee: Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.5CC: alanm, jkurik, jsvarova, than, tpelka
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: kdelibs-4.3.4-23.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Opening a terminal in the Konqueror browser or the Dolphin browser while using Filemanager mode led to a situation when any environment variable manually set before launching Konqueror was not inherited by the newly opened terminal. A patch has been applied to fix this bug, and environment variables are now inherited as expected.
Story Points: ---
Clone Of:
: 1206180 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-10-22 09:28:14 UTC Type: Bug
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 1075802, 1206180    
Attachments:
Description Flags
Proposed patch to change this kpart behavior when opening a terminal none

Description Ron van der Wees 2014-04-17 12:50:33 UTC
Created attachment 887169 [details]
Proposed patch to change this kpart behavior when opening a terminal

Description of problem:
Opening a terminal in Konqueror while being in Filemanager mode (Tools -> Open
Terminal, or press F4) will connect, via dbus, to org.kde.klauncher requesting
a new terminal to be spawned. Since this terminal is opened by klauncher, any
environment variable manually set before launching Konqueror will not be
inherited by the newly open terminal.

From an strace:
~~~
3568  socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)   = 8
3568  connect(8, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=@"/tmp/dbus-OEtdZiyDQB"}, 23) = 0
...
3568  writev(8, [{"l\1\0\1\26\0\0\0R\0\0\0\177\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/fre"..., 144}, {"\21\0\0\0org.kde.klauncher\0", 22}], 2) = 166
3568  writev(8, [{"l\1\0\1\230\0\0\0S\0\0\0\215\0\0\0\1\1o\0\n\0\0\0/KLaunch"..., 160}, {"\7\0\0\0konsole\0$\0\0\0\t\0\0\0--workdir\0\0\0"..., 152}], 2) = 312
~~~

This behavior is different from previous KDE versions (i.e. KDE3 in RHEL5)
where it did inherit the environment variables. Moreover, openening a terminal
by:
Right clicking a folder -> Actions -> Open Terminal here
opens a terminal in a different way which *does* inherit environment
variables. This together with the behavior from KDE3 is inconsistent and
confuses customers / end-users.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-4.3.4-6.el6:6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run: THISENV=1 konqueror
2. Navigate to: file:///home/<username>
3. Press F4
4. Check the THISENV environment variable

Actual results:
$ echo ${THISENV:-doesnotexists}
doesnotexist

Expected results:
$ echo ${THISENV:-doesnotexists}
1

Additional info:
This same behavior is shown in Dolphin.
In Konqueror the FileManager view is handle by kpart
(kdebase-4.3.4/apps/dolphin/src/dolphinpart.cpp)

Attached is a patch (kdebase-4.3.4-terminal-env.patch) which change this behavior for kpart.