On Monday 21 March 2005 16:31, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > Is it possible to actually open files through KDE applications over a > > Samba/Windows (or any) network without it downloading the whole thing to > > your hard-drive first? Yes, I know I can mount it to a folder but I'd > > rather not. That's what IOslaves ate for. > > Right, but it depends on the application's capabilities if it can handle > asynchronous data. > And some applications might have the need to seeking, which doesn't work > over current KIO Not quite try. You can stop a job and create a new one at any point in the file, using metadata commands, if the io-slave supports it. So as long as you can handle the overhead of stopping an io job and creating a new one, seeking is kind of supported. See discussion here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72302 Thus it is primarily a problem of application support for io-slaves, not an io-slave issue as such. Anders -- - Debian/Unstable - KDE 3.3.2 - KMail 1.7.2 - ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.