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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2009-11-02 23:07:14
Message-ID: 200911030007.22168.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Monday, 2009-11-02, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:36:33AM +0100, Martin Sandsmark wrote:
> >  Søndag 1. november 2009 21.13.11 skrev nf2 :
> > > Read my "solution" number 2 above.
> > >
> > >> [...] aligning the behavior of protocol-handlers in KIO and
> > >> GVFS [...]
> >
> > Well, what's missing? It shouldn't be so hard, the format of the URLs are
> > well-defined by RFC 1738, and all the protocols I can think of have
> > standardized names (maybe in RFCs too? I'm too lazy to check, but this is
> > really a minor issue to fix...).
> 
> if you manage to represent an object file in an ar archive in a tar file
> in a gzip file in an encrypted rar file on an ftp server as an url which
> every vfs understands then you have won.

Hmm.
Since KIO operates on URLs as well, wouldn't have that the same limitation?
What would e.g. Konqueror display in its location edit for such a case?

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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