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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: low performance of kio
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       2000-04-24 12:30:49
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Bill Soudan wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, mosfet wrote:
> 
> > I can imagine it being a nasty hack adding it, and I feel somewhat
> > awkward strongly advocating an architecture point about software I just
> > use and don't contribute to. Everything stated here is just my opinion
> > as a user of the library, but I hope a vaild one ;-)
> 
> A few more cents :)  I agree with everything mosfet has said.
> 
> No one's brought up the end-user perspective yet, I don't think.  You
> probably don't want end-users saying 'ugh, this Konqueror is much slower
> my old file browser X' when they're copying megabytes of local files
> around their computer. And I doubt most of them would be willing to trade
> off this speed so konqueror can handle every popular network protocol on
> the internet, *which to them isn't a big deal*.  They've probably never
> even used such a thing in their life.  The average user, using more common
> desktop environments, doesn't have the luxury of accessing ftp sites in
> their file manager.  Sucks to be them :)
> 
KIO uses normal copy for copying local files around! We were talking
about
a completly different thing - copying from http: or smb:

Greetings, Stephan

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It said Windows 95 or better, so in theory Linux should run it
                                                GeorgeH on /.

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