[quanta] Malformed URL sftp,ftp

[Michael Calabrese]

Binary package hint: quanta

Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch) (Kubuntu)
Release: 8.10
Machine: x86_64
quanta:
  Installed: 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

To reproduce:
Use open file and type an address like "sftp://<email address hidden>/"

Expected result: Used the kioslave to connect to the server and directory.

Actual result: I get a Malformed URL error.

I can use the sftp (or ftp) kio slaves from dolphin just fine. Currently only quanta is a problem. I have search from bugs on KDEs bug list and I could not find anything.

Please let me know if you need more information. Thanks.

[Jason Straight (jason-jeetkunedomaster)]

It appears that there is no kioslave available for quanta in intrepid right now, the included quanta is still the kde3 version and the kioslaves for kde3 are not available, which is why you can use fish://, ftp:// in kde4 applications.

[hapee (hapee)]

this is correct observation but will there be a kioslaves version for intrepid, because I only can use sftp to connect to my server and I can not use Quanta at the moment.

[Jason Straight (jason-jeetkunedomaster)]

For the immediate time being you may want to look into using sshfs (which I reverted to), you can mount directories over ssh, it's not pretty or fast but it works.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

[Michael Calabrese (m2calabr)]

I have switch to Kate which supports highlighting and the kioslaves. I will be waiting to switch back.

[Unknown 1 (unknown-111-deactivatedaccount)]

quanta for kde4 is very needed! I need this functionality :|

[winkler (winkler-torsten)]

The SSH/SFTP functionality in KDE3 programs (especially Quanta Plus) is indeed crucial for editing web pages directly on the server. However, I doubt that a KDE4 version of Quanta will be available soon. Therefore, I would strongly suggest to make the KDE3 KIO slaves available on the standard Ubuntu repositories. That would be perfectly good enough until Quanta is ported to KDE4.

[Unknown 1 (unknown-111-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree with winkler, why aren't the kde3 kio slaves available on intrepid? makes no sense, since there are a lot of kde3 applications that need this.

This is a very needed feature.

[huntz (p-conti-dev)]

This is really a problem.

No workaround yet? I'm trying to use some .so coming from the kdebase-kio-plugins_3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy2_i386.deb package (like kio_fish.so) with no luck...

Thanks.

[Unknown 1 (unknown-111-deactivatedaccount)]

Indeed this is a huge problem and I don't know why no one is paying attention to it!

[romrom (romain-lalaut)]

i confirm it's a huge problem for me too...

[Unknown 1 (unknown-111-deactivatedaccount)]

how come this isn't assigned to anyone yet? is this that hard to do? or no one is paying attention to this?

[huntz (p-conti-dev)]

I want to use Quanta because I love it, but if you are stuck with this problem (the missing FISH/SSH support) I can suggest to use Komodo Edit.
It's a good editor, free (but not open source!) with a decent remote editing support (FTP/SFTP/SCP).

[winkler (winkler-torsten)]

In some cases, there is a (not very elegant or convenient) workaround in
Gnome using GVFS: You can first establish the connection to the server,
then start Quanta and open the remote file from ~/.gvfs/connection_name.
This has worked for me on two different servers already and allows me to
continue using Quanta... Normal FTP connections work fine anyway.

By the way: The same SSH/SFTP problem also seems to exist on other
distros: On my office PC I installed OpenSuse 11.1 Beta 5 for testing
purposes, and there are no KDE3 KIO slaves either... I'm worried if this
problem will ever be solved or if we have to wait for a KDE4 version of
Quanta. This may take a long time :-( Please make the KDE3 KIO-slaves
available again!!

[Davide Saurino (dsaurino)]

I found a workaround with sshfs

It works fine, until this bug will not be solved

[Motin (motin)]

This bug will probably not be solved for a long time, so we might consider Quanta 3 deprecated in form of a serious web development environment.

I'd recommend Aptana community edition: http://www.aptana.com , it has replaced Quanta at least for me.

[Unknown 1 (unknown-111-deactivatedaccount)]

It's very disappointing to let this bug open and not even worry about it, but I managed to continue to use Quanta just fine using sshfs (as reported by Davide Saurino).

[hapee (hapee)]

I am using it in the same way as eNz1m3 and as Davide reported (thanks).
It has a little overhead but for the rest is works fine and am able to
work with Quanta.

It is indeed very disappointing that the community is not able to
maintain packages that are important, I cannot imagen that there are
more people working with Quanta and are not suffering from this.

eNz1m3 schreef:
> It's very disappointing to let this bug open and not even worry about
> it, but I managed to continue to use Quanta just fine using sshfs (as
> reported by Davide Saurino).
>
>

[romrom (romain-lalaut)]

And what about quanta for kde4 ?
The svn repository seems to be very active but i didn't find any deb package and i can't build it.

Is there anybody who can tell us if a svn version is useable ? (or maybe a link to learn how to build simply a kde application :)

[Tristan (tristan-de-rond)]

This bothers me too. how difficult can it be it to release the KDE3 kioslaves in the intrepid respitories?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Do I hear someone volunteering?
Anyway, it would be way to late for either KDE3 kio slaves or a KDE4 version of Quanta for Kubuntu 9.04.

[Unknown 1 (unknown-111-deactivatedaccount)]

What do you need a volunteer for? How does it involve coding (or not) ? I thought it'd just be a matter of "allowing"

[bcaille (bcaille)]

Did anybody actually thought deprecating KDE3 kioslaves without a proper replacement would'nt cause problems on many apps? I'm stunned.

At work, we used to run Quanta under Kubuntu but now none of the mentionned workarounds are efficient enough for production use. Many of us actually switched from Kubuntu to something else and the ones who kept it dropped KDE for Gnome and now uses Geany because KDE4 is nothing less than a disaster just as Linus Torvald said.

I'd be ready to switch back if Quanta was functionning correctly. Please advise.