Having seen the ridiculous problems the "system:/" and "media:/" protocols have caused in MDV & SuSE due to immature implementations, I would suggest we stay as far away as possible until upstream sorts this out. Until every app in KDE is properly redesigned to use this unnecessary abstraction layer, many problems will exist for inexperienced users. Even then, passing "system:/" locations to non-KDE apps will be a headache for years to come. Even basic behaviours such as ensuring a konqueror window reflects the current contents of a directory are now totally knackered.
Suggestions: roll back to 3.1 & backport everything (unlikely), convince upstream that having everything as a KIO is just plain silly (harder than it sounds), or patch *everything* in Kubuntu so that no trace of this "system:/" nonsense exists (also quite unrealistic). rant rant rant sorry -- konqueror should open system folders instead of media:... https://launchpad.net/bugs/57658 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
