[dolphin] [Bug 449744] Opening a video from an smb:// location downloads the file rather than streaming

[Mike Lothian]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449744

--- Comment #5 from Mike Lothian <mike at fireburn.co.uk> ---
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1)
> This behavior is somewhat intentional, but of course not ideal. The
> challenge is this:
> When setting up a SMB share in Dolphin it will save the credentials so that
> you don't have to enter them all the time. KDE apps/apps using KIO all can
> read these credentials, so e.g. when opening an image on a SMB share in
> Gwenview works without entering the credentials in Gwenview again. 
> 
> The problem arises with apps that don't use KIO but understand smb URLs,
> like smplayer or VLC. Dolphin could directly pass the smb URL to smplayer,
> but then smplayer would need to ask you for the share's password, which
> isn't ideal. Therefore Dolphin triggers kioexec to download the file and
> pass that to smplayer. However that's trading one issue for another :/
> 
> That said, there is a better alternative in place, KIOFuse. Instead of
> downloading the whole thing an passing it as a local file like kioexec
> KIOFuse exposes a virtual file system. This should solve both problems. The
> question here is why KIOFuse wasn't triggered in your case. Can you make
> sure you have KIOFuse installed?

I've installed kio-fuse and things work again, any idea when this became a
requirement?

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