[Bug 311258] Re: Few Zeroconf Service Types Work in Dolphin

[James]

Hi Robin

Really good to see some information about this. My thoughts on this at
the moment are that zeroconf:/ should be a subset of network:/ - on my
machine zeroconf:/ does absolutely nothing anyway (may just be my
machine, who knows ?). Additionally it seems confusing/duplication to
have both "Network" and "Network Services", rather than just  "Network".

I'm not sure why zeroconf:/ is limited in KDE to the mentioned services,
it seems at-odds with the intention of any zeroconf enabled appliance to
broadcast where it is on the network and what they do. For instance,
I'd expect my TV could say over zeroconf 'Hi I'm a TV, I'm at this IP
address and this is what I can do". It's then up to KDE to stream
digital video to it.

>From a client (Dolphin / Konq) point of view, any broadcasting services
that it discovers and lists should be linked to the various applications
that know how to handle that service. This would be in the same vein as
a mimetype being linked to an application e.g text/plain being linked to
Kate. Activating a found service would either prompt for a handler
application or if one is already set, open that application. Dolphin
then just hands off to the application and it deals with action.

For instance, my Airport Express broadcasts a ".airport" a ".raop" and a
".sleep_proxy". I have no idea what the latter is but the former could
tell Amarok, for instance, that there is a broadcasting AP on the
network and that it can accept music streamed using RAOP, much like
iTunes streams music to an AP (there are various alternate clients
around that can do this). Amarok already finds DAAP services via kdnssd
so this kind of thing can be done.

Similarly, a ".ssh" service would open Konsole with a prompt to log in
at the IP supplied, an http service would launch the default browser,
and so-on.

Hope that helps as a use case/example.

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Few Zeroconf Service Types Work in Dolphin
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