kate: the fish protocoll is not supported anymore

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 13 May 2015 07:52:52 +0200
Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> robert rottermann wrote:
> > On 12.05.2015 18:27, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > robert at redcor.ch wrote:
> > >> it looks as if the fish protocol is not working anymore with the
> > >> kate
> > >> version that is installed together with ubuntu 15.04.
> > > 
> > > It works if you use Kubuntu - kate alone doesn't include all
> > > dependencies needed to use fish.
> > > 
> > >> Is there a module to load to have it working?
> > >> Without it kate becomes rather unusable for me.
> > > 
> > > It looks like you need these packages (including dependencies):
> > > plasma-workspace kdelibs5-plugins kde-runtime kdeconnect kio
> > > kio-extras kinit
> > 
> > unfortunately this is not yet enough.
> > 
> > the attempt to open a file:
> >      fish://root@localhost/etc
> > 
> > produces:
> > 
> > etc
> > 
> > File not found.
> > 
> > Please verify the correct file name was given
> 
> Hmm, that looks a bit fishy. Actually I had only tried it with an 
> existing file on a remote machine. I have no idea what should happen
> if I try to open a directory. As there is no root login allowed on my 
> machines, I tried running
> 
> kate fish://nils@someremotehost.lan/home/nils/bin
> 
> which produces a similar error message (the directory ~/bin does
> exist on that machine), And that test was done with Kubuntu 14.04 on
> both machines. Opening an existing file worked though, like it worked
> on the Xubuntu 15.04 machine where I added the packages mentioned
> above.
> 
> Maybe you could try to open an existing file?

Or how about trying to add a "/" at the end of the line, to indicate
that you are attempting to open a directory?

Petter

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