[Bug 1800952] [NEW] Kubuntu 18.04: Konqueror won't show man/info pages

[Ron Widell]

Public bug reported:

Per the KDE docs at
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/konqueror/man-info.html,
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdenetwork/kioslave5/man/index.html and
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdenetwork/kioslave5/info/index.html, I
should be able to read GNU-Linux man and info pages from within
Konqueror. Unfortunately, that feature no longer works in Kubuntu 18.04
(it has worked through 16.04).

If I enter man:/<command> or info:<command> in Konqueror, I only get a
blank page while the little icon to the right of the search field in the
toolbar spins endlessly. Since the KDE docs say I should be able to open
those pages in Kwrite, I decided to give it a try. I clicked the "open"
button and entered man:/ls in the "name" field of the subsequent window.
It did, indeed open the ls(1) man page, but it appeared as raw html. As
I read
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdenetwork/kioslave5/man/index.html,
that is the expected behavior although it does make it much less
readable than viewing in Konqueror where the html/css formatting is
applied to look more like a real manpage.

Curiously, the man kio-slave starts to work in Konqueror. If I enter
man: in the address field of the Konqueror toolbar, it show manpage
sections from man(0) through man(9) to man(l) (lower case L,, not a 1),
including sections for POSIX variations. If I enter man:/(1)/, it shows
all of the manpages in section one, albeit in an order which is
definitely NOT alphabetical. Unfortunately, selecting one of those
choices results in the blank page and a spinning icon.

While reading man and ifo pages from within Konqueror is only one of the
reasons I prefer the KDE desktop, it one of the more important reasons
for me.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04

$ apt-cache policy konqueror
konqueror:
Installed: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

If you need more info, please let me know.

Thank you,
ron
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** Affects: konqueror (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New


** Tags: 18.04 konqueror kubuntu manpage

** Package changed: khelpcenter (Ubuntu) => konqueror (Ubuntu)
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