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

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On October 30, 2009, Benoit Jacob wrote:
>> Ah OK. That sounds like a more fundamental argument why my proposal
>> won't work in the short-term, and why it would require kernel-level
>> changes that will take a long time to happen.
>
> and for us to decide that newer linux releases are the only kernels we care
> about.

We could check if the Linux kernel in use features FUSE (or whatever
is needed). If not, just keep using plain KIO (i. e. what we have
now).

>there are many other OSes we also support out there.

There is FUSE for Mac, BSD and Windows.

http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://fuse4win.4host.ru/

In platforms where FUSE is not available, just fallback to plain KIO.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)