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1.1 KiB
27 lines
1.1 KiB
15 years ago
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kfmexec is launched when the user wants to open a remote file with
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an application that only supports local files.
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For this it does the following:
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- downloads a remote file to a temp location
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- starts a 'local' application with that temp file as argument
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- wait fors application to be exited
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- if the modification time of the file is different from the original one,
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(because the file was modified) then it offers re-uploading the modified version.
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This is how you offer network transparency to apps that don't have it.
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BUT: with KUniqueApplication, this breaks, because the app returns at once,
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so we have no way to know when the user finished editing the file...
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Conclusion: if the application has network transparency built-in, it should
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put "%u" in its desktop file - and kfmexec isn't used -. If it doesn't, either
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it's a KApplication and kfmexec does its job, or it's a KUniqueApplication
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and... kfmexec can't see modifications to the file. Be warned.
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From Waldo: "The program doesn't return _at once_. It returns
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after "newInstance()" returns. So if you open the file there it will still work.
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(Or rename it)"
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David Faure <faure@kde.org>
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20-May-2000
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