Re: What to do with fuse Was: Re: [devel] Smb4K (and Lisa)

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 23:46, Simon Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:59 pm, Kévin 'ervin' Ottens wrote:
> > Le Mardi 6 Janvier 2004 20:37, Alexander Neundorf a écrit :
> > > Hmm, and how to get these url's ?
> > > The user won't type them...
> > > Maybe it can work, I'll have to try.
>
> But that is the exact same situation with normal URLs + KIO in KDE. And yet
> it works...
>
> > It would be a good thing... What about typing:
> > /mnt/kio/ftp:/somewhere.org/my/directory
> >
> > In OOo, to open or save a file? :)
>
> If the OOo file dialog is replaced with the one from KDE, then we can hide
> that detail and just show URLs the same ways as in todays KDE apps. The KDE
> file dialog in OOo would have to translate from scp:/foo.com/ to
> /mnt/kio/scp:/foo.com for OOo. The user sees scp:/foo.com/, but OOo gets
> /mnt/kio/scp:/foo.com .
>
> Yes, it's a trick. ;-)
>
> cheers,

Ok, with some work, it is possible.
(what a statement, imagine what this means...)

What we need to do is to create a wrapper to start non-kde apps, a script will 
do the job.
E.g. instead of starting "swriter fish://alex@marathon/tmp/somefile" konqueror 
(or KRun or whatever) has to start "to_be_written_wrapper_script swriter 
fish://alex@marathon/tmp/somefile". This is possible by adjusting the desktop 
files. No big deal.

And what does to_be_written_wrapper_script do ?
It checks whether the path argument points to a local file or not.
If yes, it simply starts the program swriter with the path.
If not (now it gets interesting), it changes the path to e.g. /home/user/
fusemount/kio_gate/fish://alex@marathon/tmp/somefile. (Maybe we have to do 
something with the special characters (:@//).

Ok, now swriter tries to open damn_long_path/somefile.
When doing this, every parent directory of ...kio_gate/fish://alex@marathon/
tmp/somefile will be stat'ed.
Now the not yet completely written fuse-kio gate has to answer for the not 
really existing directories "yeah, of course this directory exists". And 
finally it can feed the file into swriter :-)

I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work :-)

...starting to code....

Bye
Alex
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