[Interest] Qt and remote files?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 13 January 2016 10:16:36 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> I see that in Qt 5, QFileDialog has gained methods to work with URL's
> instead of (just) local paths. How does this work? (Does it integrate
> with e.g. KIO where supported?) 

The Qt file dialog doesn't. The URL-based APIs are there to support 
KFileDialog, which gets used via the KDE integration plugin.

> And how do I go about opening or saving
> such a remote file via Qt? (Are they supported directly by QFile /
> QSaveFile, or do I need to use other mechanisms?)

You use KIO or another remote file API. Qt doesn't provide one.

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