KDE and Gnome Support "revised from previous post"

KIO Slaves are used in the KDE desktop environment. These slaves are protocols handlers that help kde applications have proper access to files over these protocols, for example, get files off of the server in your home. That server maybe a samba linux server, so the KIO smb slave will handle the communication for the KDE app as if it were looking at a directory. Another way of looking at it is, when you go to the open option in an application (KDE for ex.), it bring up a dialog box that shows access to the file structure and can access them files in those directories, the problem is network protocols are not seen unless there is support in that application for handling network protocols and that is where KIO slaves come in, they mount a directory into that dialog box and make the application think it is accessing a local file or directory. This whole process is similar in GNOME with Gnome-vfs (being discontinued), and now GIO/GVFS, which is being push to be cross platform. The only other alternative to these ways of handling network protocols is fuse, but that is usually installed by the user, and is not easy for someone that doesn't know how to do anything other that open up apps use the basic controls. So my question is can this support for both KIO slaves (smb, ftp, etc), and GIO/GVFS be integrated into Songbird through addons. – You, 5 minutes ago