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Re: Kioslave hell
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Saturday 04/Nov/2006, @21:00
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I wrote a couple fairly long messages about them around 1998 or so on the KDE mailing list. I thought that kfm would benefit greatly from using URIs as laid out in the various RFC, which has things like tv:/ and such that had never been implemented. The idea that a universal name for a resource can be used anywhere is powerful and provides a base needed for advanced use, both automated (i.e., the user never sees it), and practical for the user (i.e., using printers:/ to see all printers available on the network). Things like Solid in KDE4 can now benefit from static URLs to dynamic resources and subresources.
Keep in mind that KDE is for multiple operating systems. A printer or cdrom in AIX looks different than on BSD or on Linux. Soon OSX and possibly Windows will be added to the mix. It's easy to say "just use /media"... if you only want it to work with those specific versions of those specific versions of those specific operating systems that choose to use a /media directory. But a working KDE desktop on *any* operating system will display their user available resources the same using the URL. Or at least that's the idea. |
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