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Re: Editing on the server
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @16:04

> Im not sure what version of Quanta you are using... maby pre-kde port? Older? We have had full kio from day one.

Pre-KDE? Quanta began life as a KDE app in KDE 1. However in KDE 1 there was no kio so we didn't really have it. With the advent of KDE 2 we did for file operations but because of the extensive use of QString instead of Kurl in the tree the fullest exploitation of kio came at Quanta 3.1. That is when remote projects became fully functional but remote file edits have been since KDE 2.

> Granted, this may or may not be documented, but I guess Im just too used to kio.

Easy for you to say. You're a hot shot developer. ;-) How much beer would you like to find me any official explanation of KDE features on line that explain kio since the 2.0 release? This is why I think there should be a drop down on the file dialog to change file:/ to fish://. For most of KDE it's no big deal... but my project is a web development tool. By far the most requested feature, biggest complaint and most frequent email has to do with why we don't have FTP management or remote file access liike such and such windoze program...

Maybe I should bring it up on a list. It's enough to drive a maintainer crazy. I even put it on our feature request page NOT to request it. If there is one thing KDE has done a terrible job of it is in informing people about kio, one of the best things in KDE. The last official documentation I can find is the KDE 2.0 release announcement. :-(

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Re: Editing on the server
by fault on Tuesday 10/Jun/2003, @16:23

Agreed with pretty much everything you said. A lot of people I've found using KDE have no clue about kio and it's power. They might have heard about things like kiofish in konqueror, but they have no clue that it works globally in open/save dialog boxes.

Perhaps a solution to this would be a file selector in apps such as kate and quanta that has a combobox with various paths of different protocols in top/bottom. The combobox could have a label attached that says something like "Viewing:". The default should say "Local" instead of "file://"

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Re: Editing on the server
by Erik Pedersen on Wednesday 11/Jun/2003, @23:55

I do translations for KDE, so I remembered various kio-functions
from translating something. I absolutely could not find it any place and
ended up asking on the i18n list, and eventually found the info in kinfocenter.
This may have changed, but at the time kinfocenter was really well hidden
without a link from khelpcenter.

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