KIO / KIO Slave implementation

[Douglas Schmidt]

Hi, I need some directions on the Kdelibs code base.

I'm developing a media center that "hides" the filesystem from the user, it manage all the resources at a easy way.

Part of the development is to launch the KOffice suite from my application, that's working, but when in KOffice, if the user ask to open or save a file the KFileDialog shows the default directory tree, the home user, etc.

What we look for is a way of remove the default model from KFileDialog and put a new one made by us, or by a KIO Slave, creating a new model, or by changing the KFileDialog's code "by force".

I'll be glad if someone show to this padawan the right path!

Thanks in advance.

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State University of Londrina - Brazil 

 
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[Xavier Vello-2]

Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 19:35:31, Douglas Schmidt a écrit :

> Hi, I need some directions on the Kdelibs code base.
>
> I'm developing a media center that "hides" the filesystem from the user, it
> manage all the resources at a easy way.
> Part of the development is to launch the KOffice suite from my application,
> that's working, but when in KOffice, if the user ask to open or save a file
> the KFileDialog shows the default directory tree, the home user, etc.
>
> What we look for is a way of remove the default model from KFileDialog and
> put a new one made by us, or by a KIO Slave, creating a new model, or by
> changing the KFileDialog's code "by force".
>
> I'll be glad if someone show to this padawan the right path!

Hello

Writing a kioslave is quite easy. You have to implement standard methods of
the KIO::SlaveBase class.

Here is a quick tutorial :
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/KIO_Slaves/Hello_World

You can find the existing kioslaves at :
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/kioslave/
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kioslave/


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[Will Stephenson]

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 19:35:31 Douglas Schmidt wrote:

> Hi, I need some directions on the Kdelibs code base.
>
> I'm developing a media center that "hides" the filesystem from the user, it
> manage all the resources at a easy way.
> Part of the development is to launch the KOffice suite from my application,
> that's working, but when in KOffice, if the user ask to open or save a file
> the KFileDialog shows the default directory tree, the home user, etc.
>
> What we look for is a way of remove the default model from KFileDialog and
> put a new one made by us, or by a KIO Slave, creating a new model, or by
> changing the KFileDialog's code "by force".

No need to force anything

Look in ~/.kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml, customise that to the
entries that you want to show by default, and install that in
$KDEDIR/share/apps/kfileplaces system-wide.  It will be used by all new users
created on the system.

HTH

Will
 
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[Sebastian Trueg]

The most simple way to show whatever virtual folders you want is to use the
nepomuk kio search slave as I do in the timeline kio slave. This allows you to
have your own folder structure with arbitrary query results in them.
Just an idea since I am not sure what you are trying to do...
Both kio slaves can be found in kdebase/runtime/nepomuk/kioslaves

Cheers,
Sebastian

On Wednesday 28 October 2009 19:35:31 Douglas Schmidt wrote:

> Hi, I need some directions on the Kdelibs code base.
>
> I'm developing a media center that "hides" the filesystem from the user, it
> manage all the resources at a easy way.
> Part of the development is to launch the KOffice suite from my application,
> that's working, but when in KOffice, if the user ask to open or save a file
> the KFileDialog shows the default directory tree, the home user, etc.
>
> What we look for is a way of remove the default model from KFileDialog and
> put a new one made by us, or by a KIO Slave, creating a new model, or by
> changing the KFileDialog's code "by force".
>
> I'll be glad if someone show to this padawan the right path!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ---
> Douglas Schmidt
> Undergrad Student at
> State University of Londrina - Brazil
>

 
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[Jonas Bähr]

Hi,

Am 28.10.2009 um 19:35 schrieb Douglas Schmidt:

> Hi, I need some directions on the Kdelibs code base.
>
> I'm developing a media center that "hides" the filesystem from the  
> user, it manage all the resources at a easy way.
> Part of the development is to launch the KOffice suite from my  
> application, that's working, but when in KOffice, if the user ask to  
> open or save a file the KFileDialog shows the default directory  
> tree, the home user, etc.
>
> What we look for is a way of remove the default model from  
> KFileDialog and put a new one made by us, or by a KIO Slave,  
> creating a new model, or by changing the KFileDialog's code "by  
> force".

AFAIK Sebastian Trüg has proposed a patch which allows to change the  
implementation of file dialogs, see http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1407/
This would allow you to replace KDE's file dialogs with your own ones.

bye,
Jonas

>
> I'll be glad if someone show to this padawan the right path!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ---
> Douglas Schmidt
> Undergrad Student at
> State University of Londrina - Brazil
>
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[Cyrille Berger]

On Friday 30 October 2009, Jonas Bähr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 28.10.2009 um 19:35 schrieb Douglas Schmidt:
> > Hi, I need some directions on the Kdelibs code base.
> >
> > I'm developing a media center that "hides" the filesystem from the
> > user, it manage all the resources at a easy way.
> > Part of the development is to launch the KOffice suite from my
> > application, that's working, but when in KOffice, if the user ask to
> > open or save a file the KFileDialog shows the default directory
> > tree, the home user, etc.
> >
> > What we look for is a way of remove the default model from
> > KFileDialog and put a new one made by us, or by a KIO Slave,
> > creating a new model, or by changing the KFileDialog's code "by
> > force".
>
> AFAIK Sebastian Trüg has proposed a patch which allows to change the
> implementation of file dialogs, see http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1407/
> This would allow you to replace KDE's file dialogs with your own ones.

But would not work with KOffice, whose startup dialog does not use the dialog
but rather embedd the widget.

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[Alessandro Sivieri]

2009/10/30 Cyrille Berger <cberger@...>

But would not work with KOffice, whose startup dialog does not use the dialog

but rather embedd the widget.

Mmh, not sure about this: I don't have my development notebook here now, but I think it works there too, at least with the smartsave dialog...

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