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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: KFM Error
From:       Matthias Elter <me () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-03-29 7:36:55
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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 06:50:28PM +0200, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > > "The requested action
> > > get telnet://capsi.cx:2300/
> > > is not implemented yet."
> > > 
> > > Looks to me this is a rather simple one to hack into kfm.. launch a kvt (or
> > > whatever Terminal program has been specified with -e telnet, voila.
> > 
> > This is right. kfm is not developed anymore, but this a nice feature for
> > the successor of kfm, called 'konqueror' (or konqy).
> > 
> > Simon, while making the plugin mechanism, can you think of a way to
> > specify, in a plugin kdelnk : for the protocol "telnet:", something like ;
> > launch konsole -e telnet %host  ?
> > 
> > 
> > This will allow the same kind of protocol support for other protocols as
> > well, without hacking the code.
> > I can think of "rlogin:", and even of somebody wanting to use, say, ncftp
> > for "ftp:" transfers, and netscape for "http:" transfers.
> > (For this we need to make plugins chosen before hardcoded protocols
> > (kio_http for http:, ...)
> > Users love be customize everything, and a lot of them want to use kfm/konqy 
> > as file manager only and netscape as web browser... which can be
> > understood, especially if there is java in the pages ;)
> 
> 100% agree.
>  
> a) completely override libkio for configured protocols
>    Before executing KRun we check to protocol and call the appropriate
>    application.
>    I think the problem here is the configuration: How do we find out
>    which application supports protocol xyz?
>    How do applications "tell" Konqy that they support a certain protocol?
>    (for MimeTypes this was kind of easy: KRun did the job of finding an
>     application. Then we just checked the .kdelnk file. But how to do
>     without KRun? How to find the .kdelnk? )
> 
> b) integration in libkio
>    Perhaps someone has a nice idea of a possible integration in the
>    ProtocolManager (without breaking KIOJob ;) ) ?

I like the idea of plugin protocols but what does a user have from typing
netscape://www.kde.org instead of http://www.kde.org. IMHO if a user want's to
use netscape for web browsing instead of konqy it would be nice to simply being
able to associate a application with a protocol. For example a user
could want to associate "http://" with netscape and konqy would launch netscape
every time a user clicks on a "http://" link.
But perhaps a dialog to assign all sorts of protocols to commands is to hard to
configure for novice users. Perhaps a konqy option "Follow remote links with
netscape" would be enough.

Greetings,
Matthias

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