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

[Lubos Lunak]

On Sunday 01 of November 2009, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> On domenica 01 novembre 2009, David Faure wrote:
> > Right. But my point is that people saying "by mounting stuff into the
> >  filesystem we can allow even non-KDE non-Gnome applications to benefit
> >  from kioslaves" are omitting the fact that those non-kde non-gnome
> >  applications would then use synchronous API, and would block for a very
> >  long time.
>
> But that is fine for a few classes of applications. Non interactive
> applications, scripts etc. wait anyway for their data and can use the
> simpler synchronous api. GUI driven applications need something like KIO,
> sure. But the two features are orthogonal.

 I don't think it depends on whether the app is GUI app or not, it depends on 
the use case. People browsing documents over SMB and opening them in OOo 
doesn't look that unlikely, and I don't see a single major problem with this 
if it was handled using FUSE - how is SMB going to block under normal 
conditions? And while this could still be handled normally using the 
kioclient approach, that would fail badly with e.g. watching a video in 
mplayer. Of course, that handled using FUSE would require KIO to support 
seeking, but AFAIK GIO has that and therefore this would actually work there.

 There is no need to aim for being perfect.

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