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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:31:11 -0500,
Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:40:00 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> KIO - the killer app for KDE
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>>| For example, there is a slave for SFTP transfer, one for FTP, another for
>>| Windows file, sharing (SMB) and so on. What this means in a practical
>>| sense is that all KDE applications can access information from all these
>>| file systems transparently, as if it was a local file.
>> `----
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>> http://fosswire.com/2007/06/16/kio-the-killer-app-for-kde/
>
> Doesn't anyone else think this is at the wrong layer? Shouldn't filesystem
> support be in the VFS layer of the kernel, and not the gui?
>
What are you talking about? kioslaves aren't at the gui layer!
> Now, granted, there is good use for such integration for non-filesystem
> based access, like to a Subversion repository or where the GUI needs to
> send commands to and from the service, but standard file operations
> shouldn't be at the gui layer.
>
and if you are referring to the kioslaves, they aren't
> And, for what it's worth, I think windows explore gets this wrong too, but
> that doesn't mean that KDE should copy that.
They didn't.
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