kio and frameworks 5

[David Faure]

On Sunday 13 May 2012 11:32:46 Casper Clemence wrote:
> * it mounts lots more than an ordinary VFS - including XML documents (so
> the tree of the document can be browsed), databases, X (so that window
> position and size for example can be read and modified as if they were data
> in the filesystem), web browser bookmarks...
> .. all of which leads to the "uniform method of access" I mentioned where
> all sorts of document data, document structure and metadata becomes
> available in a a uniform way.

All this sounds synchronous (the data is always available right away).
So it probably makes sense as a kioslave (so that all applications can access 
all of the above via KIO API), not as a replacement for KIO (which has to 
provide an asynchronous way of accessing network protocols).

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
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