Network and file protocols
SonicDE applications reach files through small helper programs called KIO workers, one for each protocol. You can type a protocol's address in Ecco's location bar or in a file dialog, and most applications can open it.
Local files and data
- data: small documents inside the address itself
- file: files on your computer
- info: GNU Info documentation
- man: manual pages
- thumbnail: file previews
Network
- FTP: file transfer
- fish: another computer's files over SSH
- http and https: web servers
- NFS: shared file systems
- SFTP: encrypted file transfer
- SMB: Windows and Samba shares
- WebDAV: document management on web servers