[kiofuse] [Bug 75324] Integrate KIO Slaves into file system using FUSE gateway

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75324

--- Comment #93 from Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel at yandex.ru> ---
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #92)
> > First pre-requisite step is making all KDE apps robust to blocking calls on files which it thinks are safe as they're on the local file system.
> 
> Uh, no. KDE applications are expected to use KIO. You would have to fix all
> _other_ applications, which don't use the KIO API. I guess applications
> using GIO are also safe, because (I hope) GIO was also designed
> asynchronous. But POSIX API is synchronous, and users of those applications
> just have to live with UI hangs unless they use separate threads for IO.

It's okay to use KIO, nobody advises to drop it. Idea is just to improve a
usability on FUSE mounts a little bit.

You can't reasonably expect every existing app out there to implement a new
protocol just to make it compatible with KDE.

Also, imagine how bloated servers would become if every terminal utility would
implement KIO just because on KDE-powered desktops it's the way to go.

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The main selling point of FUSE is that nobody have to implement anything, it
just works™.

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