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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. What a relief. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    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:/

    Good thing the Christmas Island people have made it safe for the goatse:/ handler.

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    1. Re:What a relief. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.

    2. Re:What a relief. by SpiffyMarc · · Score: 4, Funny

      In related news, Microsoft rushed to announce the virus:// protocol implemented to make it easier to determine what links go to websites, and what links go to self-installing viruses.

    3. Re:What a relief. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      The bsod:// protocol has been working for some time now

    4. Re:What a relief. by Nutcase · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why don't they just use the evil bit?

  2. Kwel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favorite one of course is pr0n:/. But for some reason I get buffer a overflow error - anyone know why? Anyone get pr0n2:/ working yet?

  3. Re:Robust? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have had occasion to look at the source code for Konqueror

    I guess that makes you special. Last time I checked it was open source.

    the bits I had to work with were complete and utter crap

    Good thing you posted an example, so no one thinks you're just trolling.

    Tell me how in gnome (or windows explorer for that matter) that I can connect to an ssh server for seamless files transfers?

  4. Re:wrong layer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    cat perldoc://someuri/perldoc1
    I see the problem, you should have used the "kat" command...
  5. Re:MacOS _should_ have these things. by FudgePackinJesus · · Score: 2, Funny

    KDE's I/O slaves are not real filesystems and are not accessible by all applications.

    Somewhere the faint cry of agreement from the three HURD developers is heard.