KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:36:33AM +0100, Martin Sandsmark wrote:
>  Søndag 1. november 2009 21.13.11 skrev nf2 :
> > Read my "solution" number 2 above.
> >> [...] aligning the behavior of protocol-handlers in KIO and
> >> GVFS [...]
> 
> Well, what's missing? It shouldn't be so hard, the format of the URLs are 
> well-defined by RFC 1738, and all the protocols I can think of have 
> standardized names (maybe in RFCs too? I'm too lazy to check, but this is 
> really a minor issue to fix...).
> 
if you manage to represent an object file in an ar archive in a tar file
in a gzip file in an encrypted rar file on an ftp server as an url which
every vfs understands then you have won.