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Re: Kioslave hell
by AJ on Sunday 29/Oct/2006, @10:03

> That's easy, just create a "/dvd" symlink on all machines. You can even automate the process provided you can detect the OS from a shell script.

Detecting the OS is not the issue - always the same. But "all machines" is wrong. There are only a few servers, 20 at the moment, but more than 300 Workstations. X session runs on the server, but drives are workstation-local. Good luck with symlinks... ;-) (kdm runs locally, reowns the drive to the user logged in and ncs a script on the server which automounts, kinda nasty but works)

> Not just non-KDE, but KDE apps too, unless someone patches them to make them work.

If they use the kio api, all kioslave should work or it's a bug to be squashed. I've never had probs with media:/ fish:// sftp:// or camera:/ (at home). system:/ or settings:/ are rarely used, ok, but they still work. audiocd:/ does, too.

> Again, symlinks are your friends:
> ln -s /users/bkoffice/8 /home

Bad luck. You'd have to link /users to /home (not everyone is in backoffice), but it wouldn't help. Not everyone has their homes in /users, but in /u (I'm there) or the Linux-like /home (for some local only logins).

> And inventing proprietary URLs just for the sake of shorthand is silly.

They are not proprietary, they're well documented and free to use (or ignored).

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Re: Kioslave hell
by Gato on Sunday 29/Oct/2006, @16:50

> They are not proprietary, they're well documented and
> free to use (or ignored).

There are at least two ways of speaking about proprietary. In one way you're right. But there's the other way: a method of software interaction can be called proprietary when it's free and open, but it's not an agreed upon standard and it requires special efforts from the part of other people in order to work.

This means that even if you give other people the tools to unbreak the compatibility that you have just broken, your URL language is still proprietary until it becomes an agreed upon standard.

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