KDE4 and KIO Fuse

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 07 April 2006 21:27, Iñaki wrote:
> Hi, does anyone know if KDE4 will include the KIO Fuse?
>   http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=KIO+Fuse+Gateway
>
> In my opinion this could be one of the MOST important features for a good
> desktop: the possibility of using all the power of the kioslaves in any KDE
> or not KDE app.
>
> Note that a today's common problem is when the user access to a Samba
> resource via smb kioslave and open a .odt file with OpenOffice. Because
> OpenOffice (as any not KDE app) doesn't allow kioslaves it copies the file
> in /tmp and uses it, so when the user wants to modify the file he saves it
> in his local /tmp (that is terribly annoying), and he needs to move it to
> the server and replace the old one.
>
> Is it really the Linux power we want to show to the world???
> Then the response will be very easy: why in Windows is it too easy???

Just to make sure I understand this correctly (I left Windows at the Windows 
2000 stage):
it is now possible to open SMB shares in Windows applications without 
requiring to mount them as it used to (assigning a drive letter to the 
network share)?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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