On 12/05/07, Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's not even any any discussions in google I can find about why a equivalent fish: plugin is not available or possible for firefox etc.
I'm not sure quite what the right name for them is, but fish is a desktop-environment-specific virtual filesystem; it's specific to KDE. (Yes, there are real differences between KDE and GNOME and "everything else") However, there is an interesting kernel module called FUSE (Filesystems in User Space, IIRC), that provides a similar general-purpose virtual filesystem interface, and on top of that is sshfs - something that achieves the same end-result as fish. sshfs allows you to mount a remote filesystem onto a local directory, where the only communication between the two ends is an ssh session. Nothing needs to be installed at the far end (same as with fish). The difference really lies in that fish provides a URI notation and is essentially stateless for the end user, and sshfs needs you to intervene to mount a filesystem and therefore the state is visible to the user. On the other hand, sshfs provides a resource that can be used by any application on your system, seamlessly. -jim
