Improve KIOSLAVES for non-KDE apps

[Iñaki]

Hello, after the thread about Kio FUSE and kioslaves with non-KDE apps I'd 
like to propose an idea to improve the integration of non-KDE apps into KDE:


I've post it in KDE Bug page as a wish:
  http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125458
but I'd like to comment it here:



The actual process to use kioslaves with non-KDE apps is the following (with 
an example): 

 
1) I open fish://host in Konqueror (or any kioslave).

2) I open a file called My_Document.odt with OpenOffice. 

3) The file is copied to my computer 
in /var/tmp/kdecache-user/krun/28808.0.My_Document.odt.

4) I modify the file and press "Save", so the local copied is updated. 

5) When I close OpenOffice (and just in that moment) a dialog appears asking 
me to send the modified file to the server. 

6) I press "Ok" and the file is copied in the server and deleted from my 
system. 

 
The problem in this process is obvious: what happens if the user saves the 
modified file but doesn't close the app? then the file is not updated in the 
server. I've seen many confusion related to this issue. 
 

 
So I propose the following (and hope to be feasible): 
 

1) I open fish://host in Konqueror (or any kioslave). 

2) I open a file called My_Document.odt with OpenOffice. 

3) The file is copied to my computer 
in /var/tmp/kdecache-user/krun/28808.0.My_Document.odt. 

4) I modify the file and press "Save", so the local copied is updated. But KDE 
in anyway notes that the file has been updated (it can monitor the "last 
modification time" of the local copy) and send automatically the modified 
file to the server. 
 

If this method is feasible it could help improving the integration of non-KDE 
apps in KDE. So, what do you think? is it feasible? could FAM help here? 
 

Thanks for any comment.




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