KIO Slaves proposal

[Dik Takken]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Saturday 13 November 2004 19:41, kfm-devel-request at kde.org wrote:
>>> Users no longer need to know or remember the names of the various KIO
>>> slaves (my girlfriend always forgets how to type a decent fish:// URL :-)
>>> ) , all they need to do is browse to the right icon and click on it. Even
>>> browsing remote computers using any available protocol (http, ftp, fish,
>>> ...) can be handled this way by asking the user for a hostname and select
>>> a protocol (see screenshot).
>
> IMO no need to select the protocol, just enter "lan://<the host you are
> interested in>/ and you get subdirs for ftp, smb, fish and http (nfs doesn't
> really work I think) if they are running on this host. This works completely
> without the lisa daemon.

If that does work, the locations KIO slave could implement the 
links in the 'Remote Computer' area as links to the lan KIO slave and only 
ask for a hostname when creating new links. I just tried this on KDE 3.3 
and it failed immediately after typing the URL saying that it requires 
lisa. Has this been changed in HEAD?

> Bye
> Alex
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