kate NEARLY usable for remote files

[Petter Adsen]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:43:45 +0100
robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:

> On 26.11.2015 19:13, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:02:54 +0100
> > robert <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
> >  
> >> Hi friends in ubuntu,
> >>
> >> my favourite programmers editor is kate.
> >> On of the main reasons (THE main reason, actually) is that it
> >> allows to edit remote files with perfect ease.
> >> Just open  it using an url that points to the file like
> >> fish://root@remotebox.ch/etc/hosts (where fish:// is the protocol
> >> to use).
> >>
> >> now the bad part:
> >> it does not work..
> >> at least, only clumsily ..
> >>
> >> I have to open a remote file from a shell calling kate with the
> >> file as a parameter:
> >> kate fish://root@remotebox.ch/etc/hosts  
> > Didn't we go over this back in May and again in August? I had a
> > quick look at the first posts of those threads, and you were using
> > 15.04 then
> > - I'm assuming you have tried with 15.10 now?  
> yes we did ..
> and I am using 15.10 now.
> >  
> >> then it opens the file nicely, it even reloads it when the session
> >> is reloaded at a later time.
> >>
> >> So the edition of remote files works nicely. it is only the opening
> >> of remote files that is hard.
> >>
> >> now my question..
> >>
> >> where do I file that bug?  
> > This is _probably_ not a problem with Kate itself, but rather part
> > of the framework (KIO?), so I'd assume it should be filed against
> > whatever package provides that. I'm not familiar enough with KDE to
> > tell you exactly which one, though it could be 'kio'.  
> no it has nothing to do with kate, as kate runs fine when I install
> kubuntu.
> 
> I am using unity and did install kate on top of it.
> I tried to install kde-desktop together with unity. but this produces
> an error and fails.
> It seems to be some missing titbit in a unity installation.

There is a package named 'kio-extras' that seems to contain some sort
of module for ssh - I didn't examine it too closely. If that is not
installed, can you try installing it and see if that helps?

> > Does it work in any other KDE applications - Konqueror, for example?
> > That should be checked first, so it can be filed against the correct
> > package. There could be a problem in how Kate uses KIO.  
> I have no other KDE applications really.

You could install one and remove it after testing. This information
would be helpful in filing a bug report.

> >> or is there a way to circumvent it?  
> > Have you tried with 'sftp' instead  of 'fish'?  
> sftp does not work either.

Then there is probably a problem with ssh support in general. Try
installing the package mentioned above. If that doesn't help, you need
to try another KDE application with KIO support to see if it works
there, in order to determine whether to file the bug against kio or
kate itself.

Petter

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