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If I double-click on a .docx file in KDE Dolphin, such that it opens with LibreOffice (which is installed as flatpak), I get an error that the file is not found on disk. Turns out it's because the filename contained a special character ("ä").
I don't even know where to file a bug about this? Candidates are Dolphin, flatpak, LO flatpak manifest, LO itself?
@maltimore what happens, when you run xdg-open on the file? might also be your portal
@razze I think it's unrelated to portals, as it also happens with debian package (not just flatpak). Therefore, I opened a bug report at LO itself, but people there couldn't replicate it. The pointed me to some relevant threads, and from those I gathered that this is probably related to my Locale somehow. I still need to dig deeper to see which locale is used, and why only LO suffers from it.
@maltimore I hope you learned to sanitize your filenames! 🤪
@maltimore FWIW, I've got LO installed natively (RPM) and don't experience any issues when the file name contains ä:
LO 25.2.7.2
Fedora 42 (I should upgrade, I know)
KDE Plasma 6.5.5
@chrpistorius hmmm ok that seems to exclude Dolphin and LO from the problem list. Super helpful, thanks!
@chrpistorius weird. It does happen with the debian package too for me, so it has nothing to do with flatpak.
@maltimore LibreOffice KDE, Dolphin and your OS can handle the special char.
@nyansen well, another commentator said it works fine for them with LO installed via rpm :)
@maltimore you could maybe eliminate LO by trying to open it from inside LO via file dialogue
@movation opening it from inside LO with the open file dialog *also* does not work. However, another commenter in this thread said that it opens just fine on fedora with LO rpm-installed. This would point to flatpak as the issue. However, opening files with special characters with Inkscape (also flatpak-installed) works, which speaks against a flatpak issue!
