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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    KIO slaves: fuse moutned remote filesystems treated as local filesystems.
From:       "Euan Thoms" <euan () potensol ! com>
Date:       2014-09-22 8:34:48
Message-ID: 931-541fdf00-1-6b8b4580 () 118504376
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My question refers to KDE4 specifically, but may be relevant to KDE5 also.<br /><br \
/>I&#39;m using WebDAV for our corporate roll-out via davfs2 (fuse module for \
WebDAV). In Dolphin the browsing can be very slow because of 2 things:<br /><br />(i) \
the size column gets populated with number of items within (e.g. recursive \
listing).<br />(ii) the use of mime magic to determine file type means that with \
davfs, the whole file is downloaded in order to read the first 10 bytes or so. For a \
100MB file, this is extremely inefficient.<br /><br />Krusader has options that&#39;s \
allows you to turn off mim magic (and rely on file extensions alone), and it \
doesn&#39;t inspect the contents of sub-folders. The net result is much faster \
browsing through a davfs2 mounted filesystems.<br /><br />However, Dolphin and KIO in \
general, is well integrated into KDE. Therefore I would like to firstly; hack kdelibs \
in 4.10.5 for my corporate rollout. Secondly; perhaps have an option in future \
versions  of KDE4
 /5 to disable these clever but inefficient features of KIO.<br /><br />I noticed \
that when connecting to WebDAV using the webdav:// KIO slave, the folder size is \
replaced with &quot;unknown&quot;. So how would I go about making the file:// KIO \
slave behave the same way?<br /><br />I am browsing throught the kio code, however it \
is very so[phisticated and therefore complex codebase. So I would appreciate if \
someone would point me in the right direction.


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