Is there a way to reach remote files with KDE? [Solved, I hope]

johane · 2015-03-19 18:18:44

I cant reach anything remote any longer. At first I noticed that Kate was unable to open remote files. But there is more, I cant even navigate on my own network. Before the update my network was almost as an internal disk and now its completely useless. The plasma 5 file navigator is a total joke. Network isn't even an option there, only local files.
Is there a fix to this or will there be updates with a solution? I have tried various tips and installed kio-xxx.
My current KDE version is 4.14.6.

Last edited by johane (2015-03-30 07:28:53)

Buddlespit · 2015-03-19 18:41:35

Using all of the available info provided by you and using the evidence on my system that networking (samba, sftp, ssh) is working properly in both KDE4 and Plasma5, I will conclude that you've screwed up your system. Since I don't know what you did to screw up your system, I can't point you in the right direction to fix it.

johane · 2015-03-19 20:37:12

Before the plasma 5 update the file (open or save) dialog looked like this:
http://www.tavisonline.com/wp-content/u … romium.jpg

and after, like this:
http://forumbilder.se/EANJG/plasma5filedialog.png

I would like to have all the options from the first one.
All I did was upgrade with pacman.

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Buddlespit · 2015-03-19 20:46:28

I'm currently running Plasma5. Dolphin looks ok to me. I have all of my network locations showing in the bookmarks.
Again, using all of the available information provided by you, you screwed up your system. Again, using all of the information provided by you, I can't help you or point you in the right direction to fix it.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

johane · 2015-03-19 21:17:08

Yes Dolphin works for me too, but I was talking about the file navigator dialog, like "open or save file" not about dolphin.
You don't have to answer at all if all you have to say is that I screwed my system.

Pacman -Syu is what I did and I could load files from my network or ftp but now I don't even have an network icon. Again, in the file dialog window.
How does your file dialog look? As the one above or the one at the bottom?

If pacman -Syu does not work it usually gets noticed on the first page.

Buddlespit · 2015-03-19 21:25:44

What I'm trying to tell you, and appear to be doing a horrible job of it, is that you aren't helping us to help you. You NEED to give us more information. Did you read the link I posted?

Lone_Wolf · 2015-03-20 12:07:36

Johane,

please clarify some things :

Does dolphin still show network locations ?

Which program were you running when you got that "wrong" open or save file dialog ?

Do other programs also show that same wrong dialog ?

Soukyuu · 2015-03-20 13:55:00

johane wrote:

Before the plasma 5 update the file (open or save) dialog looked like this:
http://www.tavisonline.com/wp-content/u … romium.jpg
and after, like this:
http://forumbilder.se/EANJG/plasma5filedialog.png

That dialogue looks like the generic Qt dialogue, which is used when no native dialogue could be found. This is how Qt5 application file dialog looks on KDE4 for me.
Are you opening the file dialog in a Qt4 application?

johane · 2015-03-20 19:18:28

Yes, dolphin shows my network locations.
At least Kate, kwrite and smplayer uses the generic (wrong) file dialog.
I have tried a few more programs and Amarok, gwenview and ksnapshot use the right file dialog. Haven't tested all programs yet though.

There has to be a setting for the file dialog somewhere that I dont know about.

Soukyuu · 2015-03-20 23:49:33

You wrote that you're on KDE4 in your first post. This would mean you currently have a mix of qt4 and qt5 apps running.
I know Kate was ported to qt5 already, as well as gwenview, not sure about others. Those won't be able to display the native dialog anymore, because they only include the latest version of the Qt dialog, while you need the older one.

I remember reading about Kate not being able to read from network files because it needs the qt5 version of the framework to do so.
The solution to get that and the native file dialogs would be to either
- update to kde5
- downgrade the affected apps to the last version which used qt4

Personally, I currently froze all my kde packages at their kde4 versions, because kde5 was running less that stable on my test machine. This is usually frowned upon, because you're missing out on any security/bug fixes the newer versions might contain.
But in case of kde5, I'd rather have a stable system that might or might not be vulnerable, than an unstable one.

Also, updating to kde5 actually reverses the problem from what I remember: you will get the native dialog for all apps already ported to kde5 and the generic one for all that have not yet been ported.

Last edited by Soukyuu (2015-03-20 23:49:48)

johane · 2015-03-21 08:25:05

Soukyuu wrote:

A lot of text.

Sounds logical. So the easiest way to solve the problem is to to wait.

johane · 2015-03-30 07:28:27

I followed this [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Plasma_5] and now it seems like it is solved.
I have started a handful program and all have the same file dialog and I can reach my network from it.

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Is there a way to reach remote files with KDE? [Solved, I hope]

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