Re: Possible ferris-kio hackfest at opensuse conference in October?

2012-09-28 Thread Ben Martin
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 01:06 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Saturday, September 01, 2012 14:46:30 Ben Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for an initial discussion... > > It has been mentioned that I might like to try to organize a one

Possible ferris-kio hackfest at opensuse conference in October?

2012-09-01 Thread Ben Martin
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for an initial discussion... It has been mentioned that I might like to try to organize a one day hackfest in Prague in October [1] with the aim of trying to either make libferris work together with kio or just swap cool features between VFS developer

Re: kio and frameworks 5

2012-05-20 Thread Ben Martin
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 10:52 -0400, Dawit A wrote: > > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Ben Martin > wrote: > I'm wondering if there is a timeframe for KIO refresh in KDE5? > > Getting improved metadata handling in there would be

Re: kio and frameworks 5

2012-05-19 Thread Ben Martin
I'm wondering if there is a timeframe for KIO refresh in KDE5? Getting improved metadata handling in there would be a great benefit IMHO. To the point where I might start attaching patches to that effect ;)

Re: kio and frameworks 5

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Martin
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 09:52 +0200, todd rme wrote: ... > One question I think might be worth asking is "what (if anything) is > kio missing?" We have applications that do device or file access, > such as ark and k3b, that are not using kio slaves for that access. > Why not? Is it just a lack of t

Re: kio and frameworks 5

2012-05-16 Thread Ben Martin
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 12:22 +0200, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, May 11, 2012 21:33:35 Casper Clemence wrote: > > Libferris is an awesome piece of technology. It provides not just the > > traditional features of a VFS but a uniform method of access for > > applications and users to a large and

Re: kio and frameworks 5

2012-05-13 Thread Ben Martin
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 21:33 +0100, Casper Clemence wrote: ... > > The discussions is this "what part should libferris take in the > refresh of KIO in KDE Frameworks 5?" > > > Ben Martin really should be involved in any discussion of a redesign > at the very lea

Re: kio and frameworks 5

2012-05-13 Thread Ben Martin
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 12:58 +0200, David Faure wrote: > On Sunday 13 May 2012 11:32:46 Casper Clemence wrote: > > * it mounts lots more than an ordinary VFS - including XML documents (so > > the tree of the document can be browsed), databases, X (so that window > > position and size for example can

Re: kio and frameworks 5

2012-05-13 Thread Ben Martin
> > Preamble over. > > > The discussions is this "what part should libferris take in the > refresh of KIO in KDE Frameworks 5?" > > > Ben Martin really should be involved in any discussion of a redesign > at the very least. He clearly has put a lo