https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397705
Bug ID: 397705
Summary: Dolphin + KIO SMB: Very inconvenient behavior with
applications, even data loss possible
Product: kio-extras
Version: 18.08.0
Platform: Archlinux Packages
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Samba
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: tempel.jul...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
The KIO SMB behavior in Dolphin is very inconvenient in general.
Some examples:
Browse an SMB share with Dolphin and open an archive in it with Ark: Even with
this KDE program, the archive gets fully copied to a local place before it can
be opened.
Browse an SMB share with Dolphin and open a video file with basically anything
but VLC (e.g. mpv): The whole video needs to get copied to a local place first
before it can be played.
And the worst: Browse an SMB share with Dolphin and open a LibreOffice
document. Edit the file and save it. Then close it and open it again: The
changes haven't been saved, they are entirely gone and there was no indicator
for this to warn the user!
On the contrary, everything described above does work well when using a GTK
file browser like Thunar with gvfs-smb installed and running: Videos and
archives open instantly and the changes in the LibreOffice document actually
get saved on the SMB share.
-> The current KIO SMB behavior is outright terrible and even dangerous to some
extent.
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