[rox-devel] Re: Format, Free Space, Eject (and OpenDir)

[Stephen W. <st...@ke...>]

Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:13:10PM +0100, Stephen Watson wrote:
> 
> > > Free Space I thought a user defined program (FreeFS being one choice),
> > > falling back on df in an xterm.
> > 
> > Just went into CVS.
> 
> OK. We can probably do a better default (eg, one that stays up to date).
> Also, it should be disabled if the fs is unmounted.
> 
> The remote stuff doesn't look so good, though. Apart from having 'rox'
> spit out a load of XML whenever you run it, 

Damn, didn't spot that.

> passing internal pointers to
> external apps is a really bad idea (if the window is closed, the app might
> start messing with some other window, etc).

If the memory system decides to re-use that pointer.  Which is possible I
suppose.

> A better idea might be to pass a unique ID *into* the filer and have it
> store it on the window. The ID can then be truely unique (process ID,
> time-stamp, etc) and we don't have to return anything...
> 
> It's also easier for scripts, since you can just name the window, rather
> than having to parse XML...

Makes more sense.  Use a GHashTable to store the ID's?

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