ok 1 - slashdot if you havent seen it -
*Posted by Cliff <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
Thursday December 15, @07:05PM*
*from the *not-something-you'd-generally-find-in-the-HOWTO-db* dept.*
GUI <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=189>
cyclop <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: /"I am a close friend of a
Ph.D. student on human interface usability. She's now working to tailor
a KDE <http://www.kde.org/>-vs-Gnome <http://www.gnome.org/> usability
study (a pretty hot topic these days
<http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/12/13/1340215.shtml?tid=121>), and I
have been called to help, as a long time GNU/Linux desktop user. What
kind of advice -- both technical and theoretical -- would you give us on
conducting a deep and objective study on the Unix desktop, that can be
useful for the developers and the OSS community?"/
2. from a friend at my old job place ( Matt Brous @ RIS ).. and after
thinking about this its really cool and I never realized I used it.
KDE has developed ... er um ... extentions ? Shoot I cant remember what
he called it... it's actaully the opposite of an extention since it
comes at the front... so... from almost any KDE window where you can
type in an address..
rdp://servername is a windows RDP connection
vnc://servername is VNC connection
smb://server/share is a windows or SMB server share
file://filepath is a file
ldap://ldappath is an LDAP source...
nfs:// etc...
OK these are way simplified and I may have the syntax wrong for some of
those ... but there are apparently hundreds of these.. I use some but
never realized that it was a part of KDE. If KDE were smart they'd offer
a toolbar option for this and get rid of the clutter... I went to the
KDE site and at first glance couldnt find documentation on this feature,
but I do use some ...especially the rdp:// method to get to windows
servers at work.
Note - I havent tried this on gnome.. so true this is KDE only ?
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