Hi! Thanks for the additional infos! I just checked yesterday: OpenOffice supports WebDAV natively, too.
-> better than using Zope on the Windows plattform, as WebDAV/Webfolders are -> not integrated the same way WebDAV will be in KDE (i.e. seamless open and -> save from ANY KDE program).
Some notes:
WebDAV is 'natively' supported under MS-WindowsXP and Mac OS X.
I don't know about XP, but in the older Windows versions, WebDAV is NOT available from the standard open/save dialog. Only the advanced open/save dialogs of MS Office (and probably some third-party programs) have the WebDAV features enabled. To use WebDAV directly from, let's say, Wordpad, you'll need a tool like WebDrive on those platforms.
Also, there is already a Linux WebDAV filesystem (that lets you 'mount' a WebDAV drive) which does not require KDE.
That's right. But the WebDAV filesystem is limited to what a filesystem can do. E.g. I guess that you can't extend it to expose all the properties of an object via WebDAV, or even make locking work? With KDE's kio_slaves, all that is possible. The other reason for doing it on the KDE level is that installing an alternative file system driver is not what an average user will be capable of , but getting KDE to work is (as soon as there are ready-to-use RPMs of KDE 3 beta 2). Cheers Joachim