https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436553

            Bug ID: 436553
           Summary: X-KDE-Protocols fails to work as expected in some
                    cases
           Product: frameworks-kio
           Version: git master
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kio-bugs-n...@kde.org
          Reporter: stefan.bru...@rwth-aachen.de
                CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

E.g. VLC specifies SMB protocol support, but this may fail for a number of
reasons:

- The share is password protected. The credentials have to be provided in VLCs
plugin configuration, otherwise it fails with "VLC is unable to open the MRL
'smb://<host>/path/video.mp4'. Check the log for details.", the log tells
"Operation not permitted").
- SMB protocol support is packaged as a separate plugin package, e.g.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/vlc-plugin-samba

LibreOffice has removed SMB from the list of supported protocols for the same
reason:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/sysui/desktop/menus/?id=f9f9aa9873c5851da86d33ca75e937ac022206a3

Possible solutions:
- Tell upstreams to do the same as LO, remove all conditional protocols
- Provide means to state and detect conditional support

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