Plasma 5 - accessing network share with player - do not cache

Clouseau · 2016-02-20 11:59:40

Does anybody know how to disable caching (copying files to temp) prior opening when accessing network shares via samba/cifs, fish, sftp, ssh etc.? This has been a problem for years in linux, prior plasma 5, kde4 manifested the same behaviour:

Open network share, click on mp3, file starts copying and then it opens in player. So if I want to play an album that is on the network shared drive, my player copies all the files and then it plays them.

On windows which I do not use over 8 years, when you access network share (cifs) it opens directly without copying to temp.

Si · 2016-02-21 21:06:52

If you mount the share rather than opening the file directly in Dolphin for example, then the files will be streamed across as expected. Some of the apps do support working with smb:// (or other protocols) directly, but a lot of them don't. For those that do, sometimes you'll find they open the file with "some_app %f" (in the .desktop file), which KDE would copy the file first. If you change such apps to "some_app %U" (I think it's %U from memory), then it'll open the URL directly.

Clouseau · 2016-02-23 21:00:54

Yea, I have found the same fixes from bugs kde... Mounts should be mounted in terminal(sshfs ie.) rather than through Dolphin and then it should work. I have tried adding X-KDE-Protocols in *.desktop files but that didn't help... Thanks

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#1 2016-02-20 11:59:40

Plasma 5 - accessing network share with player - do not cache

#2 2016-02-21 21:06:52

Re: Plasma 5 - accessing network share with player - do not cache

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Re: Plasma 5 - accessing network share with player - do not cache

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