Comment 68 for bug 375145

Well, they are not mutually exclusive, you could just as well have a kioslave that does online access I suppose. I am not entirely sure how easy it would be, because from the bits I read it did not sound like the u1 storage protocol is really fitting such a use case (though I might be mistaken). In any case one would need to implement a C/C++ library for the protocol though, to my knowledge there only is a python library and using the Python C integration for that sort of thing does not sound very trivial nor well performing.