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.'"

Comments

Re:What's the difference?

[Anonymous Coward]

RTFA... This has nothing to do with which application to launch to deal with a specific file. You are thinking of file associations.

The KDE feature discussed here is a compatibility layer that allows users to treat a files located elsewhere as if it is on the local disk.

Instead of having to use sftp to download a file from a site, or wget to download a file from the webserver or even evolution to download a file from the mail server, you can just use one common interface for all files reguardless of their storage or access method.

This means a tighter and more consistent user experience.

SO there!

Re:What a relief.

[Anonymous Coward]

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