Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #314585, revision 3 Title: Reinstate KNode - openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) + reject reason: KNode has been dropped upstream (KF5) and is basically + unmaintained. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: KNode has been removed from the KDE pattern in openSUSE; it is not installed by default in 12.2. The results: 1. The news URL scheme is not recognized. 2. The nntp URL scheme is handled by Dolphin, which is basically unable to handle it. Test Case: { xdg-open 'news:news.answers'; } Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: News is one of the basic protocols of the Internet, and failing to support it is a shame. Discussion: #1: Graham Davis (scarlet-jade) (2012-11-07 11:31:07) I've just checked and found that Knode is in the KDE4 pattern. It is correct to say that knode is not installed by default in 12.2 but that's nothing new. I'm pretty sure that it hasn't been installed by default since 9.0 or before. Knode is in the following 12.2 repos:- OSS, Update, and KDE 4.9 Core. The problem isn't that openSUSE has dropped support for Knode - nothing has changed there - but that KDE seem to have dropped support for it. Bug reports have been ignored for years; a series of ignored bug reports starting about 7 years ago arose after a bug complaint about a feature was fixed by removing the feature! Having said all that, I agree with your sentiment regarding NNTP and never understood why Knode was not automatically installed with Kontact. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314585