Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

[Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
> Still, one thing that Konqueror lets me do more conveniently than a shell
> prompt is interact with remote filesystems.  I can use the sftp:// or
> fish:// methods to browse filesystems on servers located elsewhere, then
> drag-and-drop files to windows browsing local Samba shares (and vice versa).
> Those things are obviously *possible* from a text shell, but Konqueror makes
> the process a lot easier.

    mc and lftp both have implemented fish.  I've used both to move files
between my local private server and my remote public server.  :)  But, yeah,
D&D without caring what the object is is quite nice.  There's someone out
there that has put together a kernel module to implement fish, ftp, http, sftp
as part of the file system.

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