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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kio-locate
From:       Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-04-17 18:20:35
Message-ID: 200504171920.35785.k1pfeifle () gmx ! net
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coolo wrote on kde-devel (2005-04-12, 7:50:24):
> Am Dienstag 12 April 2005 08:50 schrieb Armin Straub:
> > I'm the maintainer of kio-locate, a KDE I/O slave for the locate command. You 
> > can find it e.g. at kde-apps [1] or at my homepage [2].
> > 
> > As I am continuously asked to ask for inclusion to KDE, I hereby do exactly 
> > this :-) Do you want kio-locate to be included to KDE? 
[....]

> It's sad but true that locate is no standard part of a UNIX box, so I don't really
> feel like including it in the core of KDE.

Is that a policy that applies to all KIO Slaves?

If so, why can I have an smb:// kioslave without having libsmbclient installed?
Why audiocd:// on a CD-drive-less old workstation? And floppy:// on my floppyless
notebook?

> But to be included into extragar,

I'd like to ask for kio_locate to be included in kdebase.

Cheers,
Kurt
 
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