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Re: Kioslave hell
by Debian User on Sunday 29/Oct/2006, @09:26

I am totally baffled at why you assume that every KDE system on earth should have /media or that the user will even be allowed to create it.

What KDE is and was for a long time already, or so I believe, is a desktop for a wide array of systems. One of its strengths being that the KDE framework solves the problems for the applications just fine.

My understanding is that media:// should work fine for every KDE application and that's OK. Where it does not, it's probably worth to note, that these apps have attempted to improve over the framework, so there is a need, point proven.

Stop telling KDE it should not provide its own ways of doing things. We actually like innovation around here.

Yours,
Kay

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Re: Kioslave hell
by Leo S on Sunday 29/Oct/2006, @13:20

>> I am totally baffled at why you assume that every KDE system on earth should have /media or that the user will even be allowed to create it.

The user doesn't create it. That's up to the distribution/system.

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Re: Kioslave hell
by Gato on Sunday 29/Oct/2006, @16:37

> I am totally baffled at why you assume that every KDE
> system on earth should have /media

I don't assume that at all, I only assume that the fact that I have non-standard KDE URL (media:/) that just happens to be the same on other operating systems (that I don't use) is of no use to me.

(And I'm not just egoistically thinking about me, when I say "no use to me" it's just a way of speaking.)

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Re: Kioslave hell
by Gato on Sunday 29/Oct/2006, @16:41

> Stop telling KDE it should not provide its own ways of doing things.
> We actually like innovation around here.

By all means I'm not trying to tell KDE not to do. I'm not the one to do that, and besides I too like innovation. I'd like a KDE way of doing things, such as making hardware access 'just work', transparently to the user.

But media:/ and system:/ and home:/ are not new ways of doing things, they are just new ways of calling things. Same old things, new names, new misunderstandings, new breakage. Worst of all, new filesystems to learn. Real innovation would be getting rid of all filesystems in the user interface, not adding new ones on top of old ones.

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