From quanta  Fri Feb 10 13:44:46 2006
From: "Schimara Marek" <marecek () listonos ! cz>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:44:46 +0000
To: quanta
Subject: Re: [Quanta] =?iso-8859-2?q?Quanta_FTP_access?=
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Hello Eric/all,

I have upgraded, and now can report _exactly_ the same issue with Quanta 3.5 / KDE 3.5.0. I even rebooted - still the same problem (no "ftp" option in the project wizard, unless I use "connect to the internet directly"). What now?


Thanks in advance
Marek


Dne: 7.2.2006 20:13,
Eric Laffoon <sequitur@kde.org> napsal:

> On Tuesday 07 February 2006 8:16 am, Schimara Marek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I know that FTP access is discouraged on security basis, but it's the
 only
> > way for me unless FTP-S (ftp+tls) is supported. However I didn't find
 any
> > information on how to make it work with Quanta.
> >
> > In the "kinfocenter" the FTP protocol is available, but it doesn't show
 in
> > the Quanta project wizard (in the dropdown menu). The only way to make
 it
> > appear there is to change the KDE network proxy settings from "manual"
 to
> > "direct connection to the internet". But, as I can't access the internet
> > directly that doesn't really help...
> >
> > I have tried to connect to my provider's site using Konqueror
> > (ftp://user@site method) and it works fine as long as my proxy is set
> > correctly (e.g. manual in KDE control center). I can download whole site
> > using an ftp client and work locally, but I would prefer to work
 directly
> > on the server.
> >
> > My KDE version is 3.3, Quanta 3.3 / Debian with 2.6.11 kernel.
> >
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated :-)
> > Marek
> >
> It's difficult to answer this because it's so old. Our current version of
> Quanta is 3.5, though you need KDE 3.4 to use it, but that's academic as
 this
> would theoretically be a KDE library problem... in a perfect world,
 because
> in either 3.2 or 3.3 we fixed a lot of internal code that used strings
> instead of URLs. If it works in Konqueror then in theory it should work in
> Quanta, and I'm sure it does... but I'm not 100% certain it works in the
> version you have. I think it should, but we did have a problem with
 protocols
> and remote projects long ago. You should be able to use
> ftp://user@domain/path in the file dialogs of Quanta no problem. As for
 the
> rest, I know Debian likes to be insanely conservative, which is great for
> servers (I use it on the server) but paradoxically desktop development is
> different. You may want to upgrade using an "unstable" branch.
 Paradoxically
> it will still have older releases that have more bugs fixed along with
 more
> functionality than ancient releases. We no longer support two major point
> versions back. We just don't have the resources and honestly can't
 remember
> precisely when we did what several years back.
> --
> Eric Laffoon - Quanta+ Team Leader
> http://quanta.kdewebdev.org
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