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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Fwd: A suggestion for KDE3.0
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-16 0:33:15
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Hiya,

The following mail made me aware that we probably need to introduce the 
concept of "soft" and "hard" redirect in konqueror/kio, if we don't have that 
already. The difference between a hard and a soft redirect is that in case of 
a soft redirect, the location-bar and "base-URL" doesn't change, only the 
contents is fetched from the redirected location. In case of a hard redirect, 
it is as if the user had typed the redirected-to URL in the location bar. We 
currently only support "hard redirects" I believe. (Is that so?)

I remember reading something on W3C about the differences between the two. 

Anyway, soft-redirects would be very usefull for creating io-slaves like 
"desktop:" it would basically just redirect to $HOME:/Desktop but would leave 
the location point to "desktop:/" (Now that I think of it, with 
desktop-merging a simple redirect wouldn't be sufficient any more)

A next step would then be to remove the need to actually create a 
"kio_desktop" and do the URL-mapping somewhere in the kio-lib already. Sort 
of like how we handle proxies at the moment.

I would also like to see "apps:" as a way to access the applications under 
the K-menu.

Cheers,
Waldo


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Subject: A suggestion for KDE3.0
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:59:11 GMT
From: k_isdale@tpg.com.au
To: Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>
Cc: k_isdale@tpg.com.au

Hi Waldo,

I was thinking about the possible features listed
for KDE 3.0 and think I may have something that
hasn't been mentioned but worth considering.

The core of the idea is to have new KIOSlave that
allows a user/network administrator to map a
local or remote path to a user's
bookmarks/KDesktop.

This would users to be unaware of the means of
connection to that mapped path (unless there was
a problem with server or connection
configuration). And for the mapped path to be
able to be changed with no change to where it
appears (similar in function to the mount file
system command).

I thought this method could be used to combine
the mapping capacities of "lan:", "smb:", "ftp:",
and "file:" KIOSlaves.

What do you think? I hope you don't mind this
email. :-) I didn't want to post it to a kde list
if this was technically impossible to achieve, or
the wrong approach.

bye,

Keith Isdale

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