Phill Coxon wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 15:02 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: > >> 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. > > Yes, I use FUSE and sshfs as well and they are very good on the command > line. > > There's nothing quite like using fish: in konqueror though. > > Being able quickly drag and drop a bunch of files from a local directory > onto a remote server or select right mouse button edit on a remote file > to edit it locally. > > It looks like Konqueror is it for the GUI based ssh interface for the > time being. > > Thanks! >
fish is a kde thing for the scp/sftp protocols. Perhaps you should try and find a suitable client program for your platform using those protocols. Cheers Col.
