On Saturday 12 July 2008, Daniel wrote: > Package: kdebase-kio-plugins > Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 > Followup-For: Bug #435337 > > I have read from a couple of sources, mostly other bug reports for other > distributions, that kio_fish is deprecated in favour of kio_sftp. Support > for kio_fish was even dropped for KDE 4. kio_fish and kio_sftp are not strictly the same. SFTP and therefore kio_sftp requires that the remote sshd is configured to allow SFTP, while kio_fish just requires a "normal" SSH login, i.e. shell. Since SFTP is specifically designed for file operation over SSH it should definitely be preferred, but there might be people needing FISH. I am also not sure if kio_fish has been dropped for KDE4 or just not ported yet by its maintainer. As for KDE_FORK_SLAVES, it means that applications will fork IO slaves rather than requesting them from KLauncher, thus disabling sharing them between applications. It is useful for debugging since the slave becomes a child process of the application one is debugging rather then being a process cooperating with it, but I don't think it makes sense as a general policy. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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