RFC: Managing remote folders, KNetAttach sequel

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:03, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> On November 30, 2004 21:52, George Staikos wrote:
> > I gave this a try and I'm quite impressed.  We need this in KDE 3.4. 
> > Let's move knetattach over to kdebase and activate compilation of
> > remote:/. KNetAttach needs support for FTP meanwhile, and some graphics.
>
> IMHO KNetAttach should be extensible. IO slaves that are appropriate for
> this sort of wizard should be able to plop a .desktop file somewhere and
> show up in the dialog. even as is, though, it's an encouraging step in the
> right direction...

  I agree and that was my original plan too.  I just didn't bother putting in 
the effort yet.  Patches are welcome!

> > Any artists
> > or GUI gurus feel like hacking at the UI to make it a bit more pretty?
>
> i'm certainly not the former and questionable for the latter, but:
>
> 	http://aseigo.bddf.ca/?pID=1048

  Looks good.  Just doing a few more tests and I'll commit it.

> it would also be nice if it used KWizard to get icons on the buttons, etc.
>
> once this is settled in, perhaps krdc's interface should be changed to
> reflect knetattach to provide a unified look 'n feel among our network
> connection tools.

  I had issues using KWizard in designer. :)

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