[Bug 24530] "system:/home" is not working properly in KDE3.5b2

[Matthias Klose]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/24530

Comment:
Nael Masood schrieb:
> This bug is still present in current builds of OpenOffice in Dapper. Except rather than opening a blank OpenOffice, there's no OO window at all when you open a file from a system:/ location.
> 
> Note that I'm trying to open a document from a USB hard drive, which by default is given the kio-slave system:/media/sda1.

AFAIU the "system:" URL is not standard, but a KDE invention. why can't
KDE just use "file:"?