FC6: Network transparency/Application awareness mismatches
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 14:37:42 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:50 -0800, Ken Tanzer wrote:
> When using either fish: or sftp: protocols to browse remote directories
> (via konqueror), many files, in particular MS-Word files and graphics
> will not open properly.
>
> We did a little digging, and it looks like if, for example, you try to
> open an OpenOffice file via sftp, then konqueror is passing on the URL
> directly to OO, as if it should understand it, as in :
>
> /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice -writer
> sftp://user@host/path/filename.doc
>
> If OO is supposed to understand this protocol, it's not working right.
> I don't think it is, though. I think konqueror is supposed to know that
> OO doesn't understand, and instead download the file to a temp
> directory, and call OO to open if from there.
>
> That is the behavior I'm used to, and also the behavior I get if instead
> of "open" or "open with word processor" I specify "open with" /
> "/usr/bin/oowriter"
>
> The same behavior seems to apply for Gimp as well.
>
> Does anyone know how KDE is configured to specify that apps can handle
> sftp or fish protocols, and how we can fix this problem? Also, I can
> file a bug on this, but figured I'd ask first, especially in case I'm
> missing something obvious! :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken
I'm guessing here.
But I'd guess that konq assumes that the target application is also KDE
based and as such, capable of handling kioslave-like URLs (E.g. fish://)
For now, gnome-vfs does not handle complex URL and as a result, OO and
GTK cannot handle them.
Does krusader show them results?
- Gilboa
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