KFTPGrabber README

INTRODUCTION

KFTPGrabber - A graphical FTP client for KDE

There are many FTP clients around these days. Most are console based, some feature a graphical user interface. What most clients are missing is support for latest or not so common technologies like ZeroConf, TLS/SSL or FXP (just to name a few), accompanied by a decent user interface that tries to support the user instead of frustrating him/her.

KFTPGrabber tries to make a complete FTP client solution with support for plugins, scripting and everything else the users needs, based on the latest technologies provided by KDE.

Here are some of the features:

Multiple FTP sessions (tabs)
Transfer queue
TLS/SSL support for encrypted connections (implicit and explicit)
Partial X509 certificate support for authentication
FXP transfer support (site-to-site)
OTP (one time password) support - S/Key, MD5, RMD160, SHA1
Drag&Drop support
Site bookmarking
Encrypted bookmark support (password can be saved to KWallet)
Distributed FTP support (PRET)
SSCN and CPSV support
Skiplist
ZeroConf (aka. Rendezvous) support for local site discovery
Bookmark sharing with Kopete contacts (KDE >= 3.3)
Bookmark import plugins
Support for SFTP protocol [experimental]

This file was last updated with relevance to KFTPGrabber 0.8.0

DEPENDENCIES

Required

KDElibs 3.3 http://www.kde.org
OpenSSL 0.9.7 http://www.openssl.org

Please note: If you obtain these dependencies via a packaging system, you must also install the devel versions of these packages!

IMPORTANT INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS

In order to compile and install KFTPGrabber on your system, type the following in the base directory of the KFTPGrabber distribution:

                % ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
                % make
                % make install

Note: --enable-final is not supported.

Packages for popular distributions are available at http://www.kftp.org/

CONTRIBUTING

If you wish to contribute to KFTPGrabber, you should build it from SVN and contact the developers via e-mail or irc - the IRC channel is also a place where it's nice to be, since you can talk to other developers much easier.

WWW : http://www.kftp.org/
MAIL: kostko@unimatrix-one.org
IRC : irc.freenode.net, #kftpgrabber