On Sunday 07 March 2004 20:08, Andy Stewart wrote:

HI all,

Hi,

Does anybody know what this "fish protocol" is that Konqueror can apparently use?

From KDE Docs: "Allows you to access another computer's files using a simple SSH shell account and standard UNIX® utilities on the remote side."

This is not only for konqueror, but all KDE enabled applications. For example, if you are writing a document using kword or kate, you can go to 'File->Save As ... ' and in the directory location you can type fish://<remotehost>/ and you'll be able to save the kword document to the remote host over ssh. This actually applies anythere you see a file dialog in a KDE application.

I've noticed in Konqueror that besides typing "http:", one can also type things like "camera:", "ftp:", "sftp:" (but it doesn't quite work for me), and perhaps many others. I've just discovered "fish:" which appears to work the way I would expect "sftp:" to work.

Does anybody have any experience with this? This is called a KIOSlave. KDE has many KIOSlaves that are available to all KDE applications. If you are running KDE 3.2, start kinfocenter, about two-thirds of the way down the list on your left, you'll see 'Protocols', click that to see all the protocols, or KIOSlaves, available in KDE. Another one that i use is info:// because i can never remember how to navigate info pages.

This is a really cool technology that KDE has had since the 2.0 days. Gnome has something similar called GnomeVFS, i believe. enjoy, --Brad