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That was technically impressive no doubt, but I think it was itself probably inspired by Windows' explorer.exe, which used to work the same way: you could enter
by pilaf 3y ago
That was technically impressive no doubt, but I think it was itself probably inspired by Windows' explorer.exe, which used to work the same way: you could enter an HTTP address in the file explorer address bar and suddenly it became a web browser.
Konqueror took it a bit further though by supporting other schemes like FTP, SFTP, and anything else that had a KIO[1] implementation.
[1] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kio/html/ https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kio/html/
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- gjvc 3y agodunno if it was inspired or obvious, but I remember the Konqueror window didn't flicker or the icons change jarringly when going from filesystem to web.... That's what made all the difference. But it was a long time ago, and I might be mistaken.
- the-alchemist 3y agoUsing the SFTP KIO backend was awesome. Was super impressed being able to copy/paste files between tabs in Konqueror, with both tabs being SFTP servers! FUSE is still catching up. I think Konqueror also supported man:// URLs, and those man pages were always nicely formatted.