Packagers, For the Qt/KDE file dialogs to work with remote URLs, you might want to backport this fix to your Qt 5.3 packages: http://www.davidfaure.fr/2014/1a9701fe81c39450822c0d4b51c11444380a2fe4.diff This fix is in Qt 5.4 alpha1 but not in Qt 5.3 or earlier. -- David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5