SUMMARY I prefer MELD to compare files, and configured Krusader to use it. However after I select 2 (remote or local) files, Krusader launchs MELD and give it two "temporal" files (copies from the original ones) so when I save from MELD changes, they are not saved and I lost the changes. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install MELD 2. Configure Krusader to use MELD as diff utility 3. Select two files 4. "File, Compare by content" OBSERVED RESULT MELD is launched correctly, but files opened are not real ones, but a copy, and when user save changes, they are not saved. EXPECTED RESULT To save changes to original files SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0 Qt Version: 5.15.1 Dolphin 20.x kio-fuse installed ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Despite in Krusader's homepage it says "Bug FAQs Frequently asked questions about thinks not working in Krusader and their solutions. I cannot use my favourite protocol X (SFTP, MTP, NFS, SMB, ...) in Krusader ("Protocol not supported"). Why? Support for these protocols is not inbuilt in Krusader but provided by KIO. You need to additionally install the corresponding protocol library. The package is most likely called kio-extras." just not the case since frameworks 5.20 fixed issue with kio-fuse.
Meld is not officially supported for an inline comparison as it belong to the Gnome ecosystem (kdiff3 and kompare does). As you said, kio-extras does not solve this (and it shouldn't). The solution should be detecting if kio-fuse is present and Meld could handle it; moving to wishlist.
I asked MELD developers too, and unfortunately, this was their answer: Kai Willadsen Kai Willadsen @kaiw · 1 week ago Maintainer "File selector enhancement requests should be filed against GTK+. As far as I'm concerned, this goes for both using the native QT file selector (since it's implemented via a portal interface that currently supports Windows and OSX afaik) and adding server connection into the selector dialog. Meld isn't going to implement these ourselves, since we simply don't have the resources to maintain that. I'll leave this bug open on the off-chance that we've done something that interferes with an existing QT file selector portal." So I must forget MELD in my day to day job.
> However after I select 2 (remote or local) files, Krusader launchs MELD > and give it two "temporal" files (copies from the original ones) so > when I save from MELD changes, they are not saved and I lost the changes. It's strange. Using Kubuntu 20.04 and its Meld: local files are compared "as they are", without temporal files, therefore changes are saved in the original files. Does the same happen to you?
(In reply to Toni Asensi Esteve from comment #3) > > However after I select 2 (remote or local) files, Krusader launchs MELD > > and give it two "temporal" files (copies from the original ones) so > > when I save from MELD changes, they are not saved and I lost the changes. > > It's strange. Using Kubuntu 20.04 and its Meld: local files are compared "as > they are", without temporal files, therefore changes are saved in the > original files. Does the same happen to you? I'm not sure if that question is for me (I opened this issue) but, yes, that works for me same way and that's how it should work over network folders, transparently, and remembering between Plasma sessions where that opened files where located.
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Needsinfo? Needs fix. Info is exposed. What more can users do???
Rafael: Meanwhile, if you want to use Meld: - If you access your remote files using Samba, have you tried "mounting" a "samba share" using some of the results of https://www.google.com/search?q=mount+samba ? - If you access your remote files using FTP, have you tried "mounting" a "samba share" using some of the results of https://www.google.com/search?q=mount+ftp ?
I meant: Meanwhile, if you want to use Meld: - If you access your remote files using Samba, have you tried "mounting" a "samba share" using some of the results of https://www.google.com/search?q=mount+samba ? - If you access your remote files using FTP, have you tried {"mounting" a remote FTP folder as a local folder} using some of the results of https://www.google.com/search?q=mount+ftp ?
Hi Toni Thank you for your recommendations. More than 5 years ago, to mount remote folders was the only workaround. Today, we have kio-fuse that works, so to mount each one of the DISTINCT remote samba/ftp folders than I need to access, would be like to make steps backward.
Thanks, Rafael, that's a reason of this bug report (for people who use programs with the aforementioned characteristics).