On Mon, May 14, 2007 1:57 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 1:04 pm, Rik Tindall wrote: > >> Ok, so who has the latest Mepis or $Xdistro for checking fish out >> please? >> Something good with an ltmodem (Agere) preferred. >> > I have the latest Mepis if you want Rik (or anyone else). > (I thought that being an Ubuntu man you would have gone for Kubuntu > though) > > I actually quite liked Kubuntu 7.04 on VMWare and after a bit of a play > and > noting that it had a later kernel and OOo I decided to put it on my main > PC. > After 2 days I am back with Mepis 6.5. > > Kubuntu and Ubuntu no longer have nVu. LPD Printing from both Ubuntu > Feisty > and Kubuntu Feisty seems to have a problem here. Easy to set up (the same > as > I always do) but after the first print I could not get any more out. > Seemed I > had to reboot (I know there is probably another way) before I could get 1 > more print out. This behaviour is the same on both Ubuntu and Kubuntu > here. > > Back on Mepis and no printing problem at all. > > Anyway, let me know if you want the burning to start. (I live in > Parklands) > > Rob > >
Rik's other choice is apt-get install konqueror (the fish protocol library is actually in kdebase-kio-plugins). The nice thing about kde's kio functionality is that it isn't just useful in the browser/file manager called konqueror. You can also use it, for example, in the file open|save dialogue in any kde enabled app, and so forth. There are plenty of custom url's that use the kio scheme, eg camera:// smb:// lan:// sftp:// imap:// fish:// nfs:// actually even the "core" browser functionality (http:// and ftp://) are implemented through kio plugins. -- Nick Rout
