KDE4 and KIO Fuse

[Iñaki]

El Miércoles, 12 de Abril de 2006 01:32, Kevin Krammer escribió:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:16, Iñaki wrote:
> > - After that she open a ODT file in the same location, so OpenOffice
> > appears, modifies the doc and when press Ctrl+S... oh.... she must save
> > it in /tmp !!!   "what is /tmp ???" will ask...
>
> I am not sure, but doesn't KDE handle the downloading/uploading in this
> case?

No, what you meaning is exactly the kioslaves, but of course only KDE apps 
support them.


> The application's .desktop file says it can only handle local files 
> so KDE downloads the remote file and uploads it again after the application
> exits? Maybe even after it modifies it?

No.



> > Yes, OpenOffice just sucks (I hate it) but when OpenOffice has the KDE
> > style installed it's difficult for the common user to recognize KDE or
> > non KDE apps. In fact note that in Windows nobody needs to recognize
> > between the kind of apps to use the common protocols.
>
> OpenOffice is getting better at KDE integration at every release. I am
> quite confident that they will have KIO support at least for full transfers
> in their next release.

I hope you are right  ;)


> And regarding Windows: I have yet to see an application that can handle
> remote files as nicely as KDE applications, even for protocols which
> Windows supports such as FTP or WebDav

Of course, the kioslaves have no comparision in other OS.
The real problem is that the users need non KDE apps many times.




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