Re: KIO-FUSE accesses KIO slaves in non-KDE apps

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Re: KIO-FUSE accesses KIO slaves in non-KDE apps
by Bill on Wednesday 11/Apr/2007, @19:47

> I already today can use OpenOffice to open files via IO-Slaves.
> It just takes a temporary file, created behind my back. And
> why not monitor that file for changes and push these backto
> the IO-Slave where it came from?

Because when OpenOffice crashes or misbehaves it leaves your /tmp directory with Gigs of orphaned temporary files.

It's a pain to make OpenOffice and other non-KDE applications aware of IO slaves, and it's outright impossible to do so in closed-source apps. With FUSE, they don't have to be recompiled or modified at all - they see remote files as a normal local files. So it's great for backward compatibility.

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