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diff --git a/kio/kioexec/README b/kio/kioexec/README deleted file mode 100644 index daaa38bdb..000000000 --- a/kio/kioexec/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -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 - |