KDE Plasma Tip:  Must have app kio-fuse
Channel: LL Techview
Date: 2021-02-12

Make network shares opened in KDE Plasma available for all applications on the system. 

In the past we had the annoyance that the dolphin filemanager which has good network share capabilities always copied over files when opening up files from network shares if the application is not able to use kio. This is no longer the case thanks to kio-fuse which will mount the network share in a local directory that can be opened by all applications. 

If you have Plasma 5.20 running and your distro of choice does not ship with kio-fuse by default poke the distro maintainers to include it by default.