Quanta Gold Reviewed

An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered how commercial Linux Web development environments stack up against those for other OS's? There's a reivew at Digital-Web of Quanta Gold, the commercial HTML editor from theKompany.com. I've always been a fan of Quanta Plus, but it's interesting to see what the commercial application has (and doesn't have). The full review of Quanta Gold can be found here."

Comments

The reviewer doesn't know about kio_fish

[Wee]

From the review:

For example, saving a document while the FTP tab is open actually FTPs the file back to its original location on a defined server, which is a common feature in almost every other Web development environment. It's arrival in Quanta Gold is certainly welcome, but it would be nice if other protocols like SCP, SFTP, or Rsync were supported as well.

The reviewer doesn't know about kio_fish. (He might also be using an older version of KDE. Although it can be used with older versions if you install it yourself, kio_fish comes standard in KDE 3.1 and above.) It essentially does the scp/sftp thing automatically. Start Quanta, go to File -> Open and in the 'Location' box type something like 'fish://example.com/path/to/document/doc.txt'. Then when asked, enter your password for your account on example.com. You file will open just as if it's living on the filesystem of the machine you started Quanta from. You can open additional remote files, save remote files, open local files, whatever without having to worry about moving files between machines.

This works in any KDE app, too. Hit alt+F2 and enter 'fish://example.com'. You'll get a Konqueror window opened to your home directory on example.com. This is an incredibly handy feature of KDE. This basically settled the GNOME vs. KDE debate for me once I started uising it.

-B

Re:The reviewer doesn't know about kio_fish

[primetyme]

Actually, I am aware of kio_fish, and do use Quanta Plus on KDE 3.1. I've had a few other people point out what you did above, so I think I'll respond to it here..

kio_fish is a very handy and nice feature for all KDE apps, I totally agree.

What I was saying in the article though is that there is no built in interface (that I'm aware of) which allows you to browse remote servers from *within* the HTML app itself. Quanta Gold provides that functionality, albeit only through FTP, by including an 'FTP' pane within the application. (This image and this pic (195Kb) for examples of what I mean.

I also realize that one could set up NFS or Samba mounts on the local FS, to achieve remote connections through the application, but that's not something the Application provides *itself*. So while kio_fish is something I really like and use quite often, it would slow development down a lot to have to open up each file individually via File -> Open -> Location -> fish://...

It's a lot faster to be able to view the remote directories in realtime and being able to select which files you wish to open with something as simple as a double-click.

Appreciate the feedback,

Dan