Question about how Konqueror works

[John Tapsell]

First, a quick point about the nomenclature..
Konqueror is a very basic shell that does very little. It embeds kparts such 
as khtml (kdelibs/khtml) for rendering html, and konq_iconview 
(kdebase/konqueror/iconview) for showing the directories which inherits from 
KonqDirPart (kdebase/libkonq/konq_dirpart.h)

The code you want to look at is the latter one.  This uses KFileItem's which I 
think is the equivalent of item-id's.  Look at 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kio/html/classKFileItem.html

In particular you can see the collaboration diagram for it.

JohnFlux

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:21, Vonderheid, Oliver wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I'm a BA student at the BA Mannheim and studying Business Information
> Technology. Currently, I'm writting my diploma thesis and I've got a
> question about how Konqueror or Linux file managers in general work.
> Windows Explorer uses for displaying and handling objects like files or
> folders so called Item-IDs and Item-ID Lists (PIDLs). Does Konqueror or
> other Linux file managers works in a similar way and use similar structures
> like Windows Explorer for displaying and handling objects or is it not
> comparable?
>
> I hope you can help me or maybe can give a good link. I'm looking forward
> to your reply.
>
> Kind regards
> Oliver Vonderheid
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