On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 15:50 -0800, Ken Tanzer wrote: > When using either fish: or sftp: protocols to browse remote directories > (via konqueror), many files, in particular MS-Word files and graphics > will not open properly. > > We did a little digging, and it looks like if, for example, you try to > open an OpenOffice file via sftp, then konqueror is passing on the URL > directly to OO, as if it should understand it, as in : > > /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice -writer > sftp://user@host/path/filename.doc > > If OO is supposed to understand this protocol, it's not working right. > I don't think it is, though. I think konqueror is supposed to know that > OO doesn't understand, and instead download the file to a temp > directory, and call OO to open if from there. > > That is the behavior I'm used to, and also the behavior I get if instead > of "open" or "open with word processor" I specify "open with" / > "/usr/bin/oowriter" > > The same behavior seems to apply for Gimp as well. > > Does anyone know how KDE is configured to specify that apps can handle > sftp or fish protocols, and how we can fix this problem? Also, I can > file a bug on this, but figured I'd ask first, especially in case I'm > missing something obvious! :) > > Thanks. > > Ken I'm guessing here. But I'd guess that konq assumes that the target application is also KDE based and as such, capable of handling kioslave-like URLs (E.g. fish://) For now, gnome-vfs does not handle complex URL and as a result, OO and GTK cannot handle them. Does krusader show them results? - Gilboa
