Right now, when you use a non-KIO app to open a file located on a remote location such as a Samba share, every time you save the file, you get an annoying pop-up asking whether you want to re-upload the file to the server. This is problematic for two reasons: - It unnecessarily exposes an implementation detail (the fact that the file was copied to a temporary cache instead of read from and written to the remote location) - The user's answer is "yes" 100% of the time (of course they want to re-upload it back to the server; that's why they saved the file!) Therefore, let's remove this dialog and just do it automatically. If the remote location is read-only, only *then* should we display some kind of message to the user when they save a changed document.
I've submitted a patch for this: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15318
Git commit fcf4529f62e15cfc891757cf372c4ef7ee7ea4d1 by Alexander Saoutkin. Committed on 02/01/2020 at 18:29. Pushed by asaoutkin into branch 'master'. Adding support for mounting KIOFuse URLs for applications that don't use KIO Summary: This patch is required to provide seamless integration with KIOFuse and KIO. The patch attempts to convert URLs that applications will not understand natively into local paths based on a KIOFuse mount. If successful, the URL passed to the application is changed to its location within the KIOFuse mount. If it is not successful, the URL is not changed. If KIOFuse is not installed, then kioexec is simply used. Related: bug 75324, bug 330192, bug 398446 FIXED-IN: 5.66 Test Plan: Compile KIO with this patch. Build and install KIOFuse (follow instructions in README): https://invent.kde.org/kde/kio-fuse Once KIO is built, Dolphin is built with this newly built KIO, and kio-fuse is built, one should start the kio-fuse process. The easiest way to test this is via Dolphin (that is built with this patch): `dbus-launch dolphin`. Once you have done the above one can simply browse to any non-local location in say, Dolphin, where upon opening a URL in a non-KIO enabled app, it should open in the KIOFuse mount, except for MTP/Gdrive URLs - those will use KIOExec. Conversely, KIO URLs in KIO-enabled apps should not use KIOFuse. Reviewers: fvogt, davidedmundson, dfaure, ngraham Reviewed By: dfaure, ngraham Subscribers: alexde, broulik, sitter, davidedmundson, kde-frameworks-devel, ngraham Tags: #frameworks Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23384 M +1 -0 src/core/CMakeLists.txt M +45 -12 src/core/desktopexecparser.cpp A +9 -0 src/core/org.kde.KIOFuse.VFS.xml https://commits.kde.org/kio/fcf4529f62e15cfc891757cf372c4ef7ee7ea4d1