id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
20672	Restore kio-extras and KDSoap to the book	Douglas R. Reno	Douglas R. Reno	"While examining the issues brought up in https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/blfs-dev/2024-11/msg00030.html , I was able to confirm that kio-extras needs to be restored to the book.

In that message, the following issues were mentioned by Rainer:

{{{
When I asked for kio-extras to be added to the book a few years ago, it
was necessary
- for the listing and display of man-/info-pages in KDE-Helpcenter
- to display the thumbnails of available wallpapers
- to exchange data with a smartphone (libmtp also necessary)
}}}

I didn't try the last one since libmtp is needed, but I can confirm the first two. In KHelpCenter, the pages will be blank, and the following message will appear in the console:

{{{
kf.kio.core: couldn't create worker: ""Unknown protocol 'man'.""
kf.kio.core: couldn't create worker: ""Unknown protocol 'info'.""                                                                     
}}}

Another one that I noticed is that, even though we have dolphin-plugins in the book, it does not recognize SMB as a protocol that it can mount a remote file share with. It looks like kio-extras provides this functionality, and it is mentioned at Arch as being needed for it. I think this gets loaded in at runtime though.

Bruce has asked me to take care of stat updates and to get it back in and test it, so I will try to have this done today and file an errata. If not today though, I'll have it done tomorrow."	enhancement	closed	normal	12.3	BOOK	git	medium	fixed