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Yes, actually KDE has managed to come up with the single most transparent way to handle these things. For this reason alone, I tend to use the Kate text editor over all others, simply because I DO NOT WANT to be interrupted and reminded about what is remote or local every time I edit a file.

Even better, if you open an remote file in Konqueror with a non-KDE application (which doesn't support the KIOslaves) KDE will download the file, offer it to the application, an offer to upload it again if you did change the file automatically!

Thanks for the info. I do lot of remote text editing and don't know about this. I always use fish coupled with split screen of konqueror to drag and drop remote files.

Gnome apps have the same functionality and will work over any gnome-vfs system too.
Example: gedit ssh://host/path/to/file

ssh: makes more sense to me than fish: anyway .

Edited 2008-07-11 20:18 UTC

There is need for neither: just use sshfs on FUSE: sshfs user@server:path mount_path ;-)

No need for Konqueror. Pretty much every KDE app can do this in the File dialog.

1. Open KDE editor of choise.

2. Type "sftp://user@host/path/to/dir/" into the top textbox (location) and hit enter.

3. Enter password when prompted.

Voila! Instant access to all files on the remote system, same as if they were local. Open/Edit as needed.

You can do this with any KIO Slaves (dav, svn, http, sftp, etc).