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[Lord Sauron]

On 3/16/06, James Gray <james at grayonline.id.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:12 am, Brad De Vries wrote:
> > On 3/15/06, Freddie Cash <fcash-ml at sd73.bc.ca> wrote:
> > > I/O Slaves have got to be the nicest feature of KDE.
> >
> > I would have to agree.  Yesterday I had a Konqueror session open with
> > two panes.  The left side had a fish:/ (FTP over SSH) running to my
> > home server and the right side had an ftp:/ (regular FTP) to a local
> > system.  I was able to drag-n-drop files from the local FTP server to
> > my home server.
> >
> > I was impressed but all the local MS Windows drones were pushing their
> > eyes back into their sockets and picking their tongues up off the
> > floor.  You just got to love this stuff!
>
> You wanna really pop their 4 (and only) brain cells, open a few konqueror
> sessions (or tabs) with nfs:// smb:// fish:// ftp:// THEN start dragging
> stuff around :)  "Look! Your precious Windows machines DON'T need Windows
> clients to poke around them".

I think you're also enjoying the drag 'n drop standard at
http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/ (endorsed by
www.freedesktop.org)

> Showed my boss that a few weeks ago and he was astounded at "how far open
> source has come"....I told him I've been doing it for years!  KDE's KIO
> mechanism has been around since KDE2 (in various forms).  SSL/SSH was a bit
> buggy in KDE2 (https didn't even work..at all) but the http/ftp/nfs etc were
> there.  "Come a long way" indeed....but what have M$ been doing while F/OSS,
> Apple and others have been making the network "transparent" to the user -
> want to move stuff from NFS to a SMB share, no problem!
>
> Roll on KDE4!

I think they should delay KDE 4 for just long enough to get Xgl out
into full integration.  Xgl is the future!  It's so darn cool!  Then
with Xgl imagine how cool KDE4 could be!

> James
> --
> Windows drones have 4 brain cells: 1 to keep their heart beating, 1 to keep
> them breathing, and the other two are arguing with each other.

I know quite a few Windows drones with no brain.  They're like that
decapitated chicken that lived for years with nothing but the gray
matter in the spinal cord.  (You should have seen how surprised the
farmer was!)

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