KIOFuse in kdereview

[Nate Graham]

+1, this is great stuff.

Nate


On 11/4/19 3:08 PM, Alexander Saoutkin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> 
> KIOFuse (https://invent.kde.org/kde/kio-fuse) has been moved to kdereview.
> 
> 
> KIOFuse is a project started by Fabian Vogt that allows the possibility 
> to mount KIO filesystems in the local system; therefore exposing them to 
> POSIX-compliant applications such as Firefox and LibreOffice. KIOSlaves 
> are a powerful feature within the KIO framework, allowing KIO-aware 
> applications such as Dolphin to interact with services out of the local 
> filesystem over URLs such as fish:// and smb://. However, KIO-unaware 
> applications are unable to interact seamlessly with KIO Slaves. For 
> example, editing a docx file in gdrive:/ in LibreOffice will not save 
> changes to your Google Drive seamlessly. KIOExec is one of the fallbacks 
> that is used, but is not desirable. One potential solution is to make 
> use of FUSE, which is an interface provided by the Linux kernel, which 
> allows userspace processes to provide a filesystem which can be mounted 
> and accessed by regular applications. KIOFuse is a feature that has been 
> requested many times before, case in point this very active 15 year-old 
> bugzilla bug report [0] and several reddit threads [1] [2] [3] [4]. The 
> project was further developed by me as a GSoC project [5], and both me 
> and Fabian are happy to see KIOFuse go through the kdereview process now.
> 
> 
> KIOFuse can be used standalone, but there is also work to integrate 
> KIOFuse closer with KIO [6], allowing seamless “integration” between the 
> two.
> 
> 
> Currently, KIOFuse has been tested to work on Linux, although there are 
> no technical reasons why it can’t work on FreeBSD. It can potentially 
> work on macOS [7], and we’d be happy for people to test this for us if 
> there is demand for it. KIOFuse currently uses the low-level libfuse 
> API, but there is a Windows-based library that has a compatibility layer 
> with the high-level libfuse API [8]. If one would like KIOFuse to work 
> on Windows, one could explore the creation of a low-level libfuse API 
> compatibility layer; it would probably also require a bit of a refactor 
> of the KIOFuse code.
> 
> 
> The ideal destination is extragear, due to KIOFuse being written for 
> C++17, and frameworks requiring to be compiled on C++11-compliant 
> compilers or newer. A move to KF6 in the future could be desirable.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Alexander Saoutkin (feverfew)
> 
> 
> [0]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75324
> 
> [1]: 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/a5a0zq/is_kiofuse_ever_going_to_be_a_thing/
> 
> [2]: 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/9exqqu/imo_everything_about_kde_is_the_best_except_one/
> 
> [3]: 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/9i3ml8/mpv_does_not_want_to_open_video_files/
> 
> [4]: 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/77ekkm/plasma_511_review_keep_the_momentum_going/
> 
> [5]: 
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2019/projects/4621805883490304/
> 
> [6]: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23384
> 
> [7]: https://osxfuse.github.io/
> 
> [8]: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
>