From kde-core-devel  Mon Nov 22 06:44:33 2004
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Szombathelyi_Gy=F6rgy?= <gyurco () freemail ! hu>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:44:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: ACL support in konqueror
Message-Id: <41A18AD1.3020203 () freemail ! hu>
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Sean Harmer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've got a little over a weeks leave coming up off work and I've decided to 
> try and contribute to KDE a little. I've started having a look at what is 
> required to add acl support to konqueror (see 
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6976). 
> 
> I realise that there is more to acl support than just a nice dialog page where 
> users can view/modify the acl's. Here are my initial thoughts on what needs 
> doing. I am not overly familiar with the KIO code as yet, so if this is just 
> a stupid approach or there is a better way or additional things to consider 
> then please let me know. Anyway here goes...
> 
> 1.) Display/Modify acl from properties dialog in konqueror.
> 
> This will involve adding a new class KFileACLPropsPlugin that can be shown in 
> place of KFilePermissionsPropsPlugin if the filessystem supports acl's. Add 
> the check for this in KPropertiesDialog::insertPages().
> 
> 2.) Copying/Moving files in konqueror.
> 
> As far as I can tell right now after (not much) looking at the KIO::*Job 
> classes is that I may need to add some support in the KIO::CopyJob and maybe 
> KIO::ChmodJob??? Any pointer here would be appreciated.
> 
> 3.) Compressing/decompressing
> 
> Does the archive format support acl's when compressing? Does the filesystem 
> support acls when decompressing? Not looked into this one much yet. Any 
> pointers?
> 
> Anyway, thanks for any help that you can give.
> 
> Sean
Maybe this can be a starting point:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=104975348327654&w=2

Bye,
György