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KDE: Breaking the Network Barrier

Posted by michael on from the glass-ceiling dept.

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.'"

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  1. Put it in the shell? by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

  2. Re:OS X has a long way to go to catch up? and by PitaBred · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...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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