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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Bug#4329: downloading form tucows.com
From:       Emily Ezust <emilye () corel ! com>
Date:       2000-05-31 19:48:37
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Aha! yes - I did forget to add network transparency.
I'll get right on it.

David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:18:05PM +0200, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> > Package: khtml
> > Version: 3.0 (KDE 1.90 Beta >= 20000531)
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi!
> > may be related to bug 3829
> > automatic downloading  works (but without telling me which file and which \
> > location-we have discussed this already)
> Have we ? :)
> 
> > it opens ark, shows the files.
> > BUT no way to extract them. (BTW ark works, if I download the file manually)
> > So I was looking for the file somewhere in .kde directory -, nothing to find.
> > I assume that the temporary file is deleted after opend by ark, and ark can not
> > extract any data, because the file has gone
> Doh! I didn't realise that, when I posted about kfmexec and KUniqueApplication.
> Damn. I think that ark should have support for network transparency by itself,
> like many other KDE applications, and this would solve the problem.
> 
> An app should be either a plain command-line app that exits after quitting,
> handling network transparency or not, _or_ a KUniqueApplication (single instance,
> kind of a server app) that can handle network transparency.
> A KUniqueApplication that doesn't handle network transparency is meant to break
> such things.
> 
> Forwarded to Emily - please consider this a wishlist item for ark :
> that it uses KIO::NetAccess to be network transparent, and when that's done, that
> it says %u (one URL) or %U (multiple URLs) in its desktop file (Exec line), so that
> kfmexec isn't used at all.
> 
> The other wish would be a Save As option, to save a copy of the full archive
> somewhere else.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
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> David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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Emily Ezust, emilye@corel.com
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