Improve KIOSLAVES for non-KDE apps

[Hans]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 00:43 +0200, Iñaki wrote:
> 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.


This is how it works in SuSE 10.0 OpenOffice?
(no dialog box asking for upload)








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