Bug 116681

Summary: Allow network files to be sent over IM
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-kde>
Component: Main ApplicationAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andrew Kohlsmith 2005-11-19 02:11:18 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.92)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

I'm just wondering if there is a technical reason behind not letting me send a file on a network share (smb:// in particular) to an MSN user?  the smb:// ioslave lets me edit remote files in Kate, play remote files in several media players, etc..  Was "local only" simply a mis-click in the kopete development or is there a technical reason behind forcing users to copy a remote file to local storage before sending to an MSN user?
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-11-19 04:11:17 UTC 
Phrasing the Summary as a feature request, not a query.
Comment 2 Matt Rogers 2005-11-19 04:56:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116350 ***
Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2005-11-19 05:53:49 UTC 
Bug 116350 is now completely different. It's a wishlist for kfiledialog not to allow you browsing out of local files if non-local files are not accepted.

This wishlist is for Kopete to allow sending non-local files. It is requesting that kfile not return non-local files. There must be a reason for that, which I don't know.
Comment 4 Matt Rogers 2005-11-19 07:21:02 UTC 
yeah, the reason is that nobody's wrote the code that tells kio to save the remote file into a local temp file so that we can use that local temp file for the file transfer request.
Comment 5 Andrew Kohlsmith 2005-11-19 12:41:28 UTC 
Actually that's another question I have about ioslaves in KDE in general...  WHy must files be copied to a local share?  This is particularly frustrating with the various music playing apps, where I can't just play music over a share, it msut copy each song locally, incurring a delay (sometimes large for big songs).

Some apps allow playing remote music without copying locally, some don't.  Hell Amarok lets you do both, depending on which sound system you're using!
Comment 6 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:35:03 UTC 
Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.