KDE4 and KIO Fuse

[Hans]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:12 +0200, Iñaki wrote:
> 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  ;)
> 

My default SuSE 10.0 OpenOffice installation can handle (open edit save)
KIO "mounts".
(does ask for a password thou?)





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