Remote file editing, dolphin and local caching

[Peter Risdon]

On 23 October 2012 09:57, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 2012-10-23, Peter Risdon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm converting to KDE from Gnome (classic) and struggling with the
> handling
> > of remote filesystems. Having googled the problem at length, I have two
> > questions:
> >
> > 1. If I try to use my preferred text editor, gedit, with a file on a
> > network drive it caches the remote file and operates on the cached
> version.
> > The only opportunity to upload it comes when the editor is closed. Is
> there
> > a way to make the editor operate on the remote file directly? It looks
> like
> > the only editor that does, and this in a laborious way, is Kate.
>
> gedit uses a different implementation for virtual file systems than KDE
> does
> (KDE uses KIO, GTK+ applications use GIO/GVFS).
>
> You'll find Kate's behavior with most other KDE applications, for gedit
> you'll
> have to contact the gedit community.
>

That explains it - thanks very much.

>
> > I'd appreciate being cc'd in because I don't subscribe to this list.
>
> Leaving that for reference for follow up comments
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
> KDE user support, developer mentoring
>
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