Version: (using KDE 4.3.4) Installed from: Archlinux Packages In bug 217494 we had a discussion that there is currently no dedicated user interface support in kio for creating connections or kio urls. This is needed for users that do not know how to set up a url correctly or even don't know which protocols are supported by kio. Moreover it would be hard for client application developers to create such a dialog because it would constantly get out of sync with kio. There are several requirements we have identified for such a dialog / widget: 1. all supported protocols must be visible to the user 2. it should be predefineable in code which protocol is selected 3. a list of valid protocols should be accessible so that eg. we could generate an export plugin entry for every protocol We also had the idea to use knetattach for this embedded in a normal file dialog or url requester but this doesn't work.
I've also run across this bug (see bug 264045).
There are plenty of user interfaces for this. For example to access smb:// KIOSlaves, you navigate to the Network using the Places panel. Other than this type of thing, I'm not sure that exposing implementation details of this nature is going to be worth it.