Incubation Request: kio-afp

[Daniel Markstedt]

To whom it may concern:

I was directed to file this incubation request from the kind guidance by Méven Car, so here goes:


https://invent.kde.org/dmark/kio-afp/-/issues/1



kio-afp is a KIO worker for the AFP protocol, allowing Dolphin and Konqueror to seamlessly browser remote AFP volumes. AFP is a file sharing / network file system protocol developed by Apple for the very first Macintosh through macOS 26 Tahoe, and subsequently implemented by a range of free and open source (and commercial) server and client applications. It has a dedicated user base thanks to fast file transfer and enumeration speeds compared to rival file sharing protocols, as well as for its deep interoperability / backwards compatibility with the latest macOS as well as 40 year old networked Apple machines.


I started this project in December of 2025, and I consider it usable and stable at this point.
It is a thin wrapper for libafpclient (part of afpfs-ng) so the heavy lifting is done by that library, which is why the KIO worker is only ~1000 lines.
You can see some screenshots of the worker in action at:
https://invent.kde.org/network/kio-zeroconf/-/merge_requests/9


Of historical curiosity, kio-afp was inspired by kioslave_afp created by Alex DeVries in 2008 for KDE3, which never exited alpha stage.


I wrote all of the current code and am the primary maintainer, while my collaborator Andy Lemin is looking into adding thumbnail support now.


Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.


Sincerely,


Daniel Markstedt
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