Alternative FTP client

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Dec 18 15:34:00 UTC 2007


Donn wrote:

>> consumes about 20-30% CPU when it's open (even if it does nothing). So I
>> searched for an alternative (for KDE).
> Oh boy, have I got an answer for you --> Konqueror!
> 
> You can also do fancy stuff in other KDE apps. For example, ftp to your
> server in Konqueror and then open a text file in Kate. Now you can edit
> that file and when you save it, it will FTP it back to the server! How
> cool it that.

Of course, you don't even need to use Konqueror to do that - start kate with
an FTP url "kate ftp://...", or enter an FTP url in the file dialog.  It's
all in the power of kio slaves.
-- 
derek





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