kfile_lnk plugin

[Craig Drummond]

> Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this is simply not implemented.
>
> I mean, looking into the code of the txt kfile plugin, it opens a file
> (using QFile) to read the metadata. This is similarly done in the HOWTO at
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kfile-plugin/x154.html
>
> but doesn't this mean, I can _never_ get meta data from a URL which
> addresses a non-local file ?
>
> If so, do I have to use KIO::get() or something ?

Yeah, sorry. For the fonts kfile-plugin, I used KIO::NetAccess:download to get 
the file. Maybe for KDE4 the kfile api should use urls?

Craig.