If you use KDE version 3.1 or greater, then you're lucky. It has kio_fish built in. I wrote about this before (it was in the Red Hat 8.0.96 beta) but I hadn't really used it much. I've been doing stuff all morning with it (I upgraded my Windows 2000 machine to Red Hat 9 over the weekend), and I don't think I can live without it.
I started Quanta (the editor I've been using this month until I find something better or start using emacs) and hit the 'Open -> File' dialog. In the 'Location' field, I entered 'fish://wee@hostname' and hit return. After typing in my password for the remote system, I was looking at all the files in my home directory. I found a file, opened it up and started editing it. All the changes are there on the remote system. No more scp'ing things all over the world. I've opened a dozen files so far, and I'm still "logged in" to the remote machine. Very spiffy.
Copying files and directories is really easy, too. You hit 'alt+f2', then type in 'fish://user@hostname' and after entering your password you are there looking at your home directory in Konqueror. Drag and drop whatever files you want from there...
Every KDE app can use kio_fish to access remote loactions. I wish XMMS understood how to use it. But streaming MP3s from a web server works well enough I suppose.
There ya go- the new fish name! Kio!
Suz
Posted by at May 12, 2003 7:22 PMSounds like I'm down with it. I was having fun with the virtual fish all day. Turns out that you can open up Konqueror (which is basically like Explorer, in case you wondered), click around to a CDRom with a music CD in it, and drag the audio files to your hard disk. The 'audiocd' kio slave will kick in and it'll automatically go through and name all the tracks and put them in various virtual directories. If you drag the ones from the OGG Vorbis directory, it'll make compressed audio files (in OGG format). It's pretty darn cool.
Posted by wee at May 14, 2003 1:32 AM