I am proud of knowing all the software that runs on my computers and I find this running on my desktop and I have zero idea what this is.
Could it be Kio (https://packages.artixlinux.org/packages/world/x86_64/kio/) d (as in daemon), version 6?
Here's a cool operation that pacman has:
So, in order to use it for your example, do:
pacman -Fy (download database, notice that it is -Fy, not -Sy)
pacman -F kiod6
The last command returns
And from here you can look up all of the info with "pacman -Si kiod6". It seems to be a KDE thing
Edit: oops, corysanin was quicker than me ;D
that is not what I am asking though. I am asking what it does. It has hooks in dozens of things, especially liboffice. I don't know why though. I need something that says kiod6 DOES this...
extra/kio 6.4.1-1 (kf6) [installed]
Resource and network access abstraction
Is meaningless to me...
delete
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO
sounds like it is useless garbage trying to replace nornal unix services that I don't want. Why I need this crap for okular makes a huge problem for me now. I'm going to need a new pdf viewer.
May I recommend zathura (https://youtu.be/V_Iz4zdyRM4)? This one follows the Unix philosophy to the letter ;)
Or your browser probably has a pdf reader already built in (at least anything based on Chromium or Firefox does)
To me it's very useful but I can understand that train of thought if you don't use KDE as your desktop.
If you want rid of KIO you do need an alternative pdf viewer.
KIO is required by KDE itself and most of the useful KDE programs.