tdelibs

History

Timothy Pearson b19ddece21 Rename KInstance and KAboutData to avoid conflicts with KDE4		11 years ago
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CMakeLists.txt	Additional kde to tde renaming	13 years ago
Makefile.am	Rename additional instances of KDE to TDE	13 years ago
README	Rename KApplication to TDEApplication to avoid conflicts with KDE4	11 years ago
main.cpp	Rename KInstance and KAboutData to avoid conflicts with KDE4	11 years ago
main.h	Initial conversion for TQt for Qt4 3.4.0 TP2	14 years ago

README

kfmexec is launched when the user wants to open a remote file with
an application that only supports local files.

For this it does the following:
- downloads a remote file to a temp location
- starts a 'local' application with that temp file as argument
- wait fors application to be exited
- if the modification time of the file is different from the original one,
(because the file was modified) then it offers re-uploading the modified version.
This is how you offer network transparency to apps that don't have it.

BUT: with KUniqueApplication, this breaks, because the app returns at once,
so we have no way to know when the user finished editing the file...

Conclusion: if the application has network transparency built-in, it should
put "%u" in its desktop file - and kfmexec isn't used -. If it doesn't, either
it's a TDEApplication and kfmexec does its job, or it's a KUniqueApplication
and... kfmexec can't see modifications to the file. Be warned.

From Waldo: "The program doesn't return _at once_. It returns
after "newInstance()" returns. So if you open the file there it will still work.
(Or rename it)"

David Faure <faure@kde.org>
20-May-2000