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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: A suggestion for KDE3.0
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-08-16 17:36:17
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> 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)

That would also be nice for floppies as a: could redirect to floppy://
and make lots of windows users happy.

Rich.

> 
> 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
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> 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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> 
> --
> KDE 2.2: We deliver.

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