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KDE: Breaking the Network Barrier
comforteagle writes "In this month's KDE: From the Source, entitled Breaking the Network Barrier George Staikos takes us on a walk-through of KDE's desktop networking protocol handlers in the vein of sftp:// webdav:// and a few really nifty ones I wasn't aware of like info:/ perldoc:/ and tar:/. The entire KDE desktop environment is decked out like this, and as George puts it, 'Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X have a long way to go to catch up with the robust, transparent functionality that KDE has provided since version 2.0.'"
The network transparency of KDE is brilliant. I'm not sure where the holdup for OSX is, but I would kill to be able to open a location with cmd-k, fish://user@myhost
afp://user:password@hostname_or_atalk_name/direc tory/
This also works for WebDAV (apple has been a pioneer in the use of WebDAV), SMB (windows fileshares), ssh+scp, etc. yes, you can open an ssh session from Connect to Server in the finder.
Windows has also had similar capabilities for quite a while. I really fail to see what's new and exciting about KDE, save that it supports more tutti-fruity URI's.
Methinks the KDE boys just don't know OSX, because it took me 10 seconds to find this info via google, and I know I've found it on info.apple.com before. Really, folks- both OS X help and info.apple.com are excellent for learning about the OS.
Please help metamoderate.
Let me know when it's included in a kernel module, and I can use it from all my programs. Until then, it's just more crap in a bloated set of non-standard user libraries.
But does gnome have integrated webdav support? I would think they'd be on the ball to mimic any lil kde features that pop-up.
Of course it does. See, KDE added it to Linux, so that all applications are able to use this. No, wait -- they didn't. This is just some bullshit added to an already bloated set of non-standard user libraries.
...you're an idiot. Go read the article. This isn't about applications using handlers, it's being able to access things through a secure, universal scheme rather than having to re-implement their own POP3 or IMAP or SFTP or whatever protocol handler.
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Wow I like this one. Here they are most of "Connect to server" server connections don't work, example ftp:// one version asks for password, but latest OSX patch does not. Copying files doesn't work as it should. This is really vague. FTP is read-only, sure. There is no built in FTP client in OS9. Network interface was simple. Chooser and that was it. Now there is trashed all over the place. Network in finder supporting SMB only??? The network in the finder doesn't support SMB only. You think the finder was better? There was no SMB (or NFS) support at ALL. You're forgetting the "network browser" conveniently. Start menu has gone bad since OSX. There is no fucking "start" menu. Do you know what you're talking about? Mail has fatal flaws. (Besides its fatal unusability) Wow, that's a little vague too. I use it all day without a single problem. Themes aren't consistant. And please don't say BrMetal is multimedia, standard is other software. Even Apple wasn't consistant with this feature Window Titlebar. Was clear, now you get ughly and bad positioning. Window titlebars are exactly the same as they are in OS X. WTF are you talking about? Mouse (ok, that one was bad and still is) What's wrong with the mouse? OS9 detected new monitor. OSX doesn't. I wouldn't even notice that if I wouldn't disconnect 22" monitor and connect 17". Guess what (blank screen) File layout was perfect, now it isn't. System files were perfect. Throw preferences to trash and it works. Now it doesn't, Everything is displaced on various locations. (even Windows don't have such bad file layout) Actually everything is on ~/Library/Preferences You could reinstall system, copy (not install) software and preferences. You could work. Now it is not even a bit better than Windows. Explain how you can not copy software in OS X. Response was fast, now eye candy is slowing down everything. Harddrives often get locked in OSX. Huh? Printers don't support CMYK ICC profiles (OS9 was supporting them). Sory, buddy. cups is not CMYK proof concept. You can install rip though, but that is something you can install anywhere Really bad system menu layout. It was almost perfect No more delete and it is uninstalled. It was trashing all over th place So the extensions folder in OS9 didn't exist? Everything is too big without system scaling option. (There wasn't scaling in OS9 but at least it was usable on smaller resolutions) Should I continue???? You don't know what you're talking about, I'm not going to waste my time.
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