[kio-extras] [Bug 451408] File preview on some locally-mounted drives (NTFS, NFS, SMB) inappropriately use remote preview settings

[Méven Car]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451408

--- Comment #41 from Méven Car <meven29 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to FeepingCreature from comment #40)
> Created attachment 150625 [details]
> gbit networking is plenty fast for previews.
> 
> For those with fast networking, patch against kio-5.92 attached. It's not
> very clean; I just took a sledgehammer to this code.

Care for some proper patch ?
> 
> The fraction of new issues I encounter with KDE that turn out to be
> deliberately introduced, is starting to worry me a bit. :)

You are welcome to contribute, as you do with your comment or more
constructively with code review or code.

We try to be transparent about our decision process
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451408#c30) and when we do make mistakes
(here a wrong assumption than local drive are to be recognized as local
drives), we make amend provided we get the feedback needed to realize the
drawback of the changes.

Because most devs are benevolent, we can't reproduce all the configurations the
users will use and test those, so we have a tendency to focus on standard
issues in our testing (here no ntfs fuse mounts, few of us use nfs mounts or
samba).

Plus all users don't have the same needs, i.e not all have high speed networks,
SSD or high CPU count, we have to tailor things down to the light slimbooks of
the world and where networking is slow and/or expensive while allowing to take
advantage of more capable systems.

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