Re: system:/ kio question

Hi,

I posted a poll here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=162055
a few days ago to see what people think of system:/

Not too many votes, but it seems about half do like the feature given the bugs will be fixed.

Hope the info is helpful in some way,
Yuriy

>Hi all,
>I also strongly disagree with the usage of system:/home. It causes countless 
>problems with various applications. Even if they're all fixed, system:/home 
>remains broken because a user cannot cut'n'paste the path of a file to 
>non-KDE application.
>
>regards,
>Flavio
>
>On Thursday 20 April 2006 19:45, Christoph Wiesen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I reported a few imo important issues with the system:/ kio slave,
>> especially system:/home that's (at least for me) used for all browsing with
>> System Menu -> Home Folder.
>>
>> Maybe Jonathan or somebody on the dev team can respond to this, so I know
>> how to handle this:
>>
>> Is system:/home a temporary problem or is it planned to have system:/home
>> instead of a link to /home/username/ for normal file system browsing in the
>> final?
>>
>> If the answer is 'yes' I would look through all the problems I have
>> encountered again, verify they are still present and re-producable on other
>> machines and then report them seperatedly in launchpad.
>> Though I strongly disagree with the whole concept of system:/home
>> personally I'd still wish for dapper to be as stable and elegant as
>> possible, even if this kio slave will remain default, thus reporting bugs
>> as specific as possible, so they might be fixed in time.
>>
>> If the answer is 'no' I'll spare myself and those verifying bug reports the
>> troubles.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chris