Re: [rox-devel] ROX-VFS: Worthwhile?

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:20:02PM +1100, Lucas Hazel wrote:
> 
> I have almost finished uni for the year, so i have been trying to think
> of some things to do to ROX while I am on holidays. I have a few ideas
> (mostly pointless aesthetic behaviours), but a ROX style VFS system
> seems really interesting to me.
[...]
> It may turn out using gnome-vfs is a better idea, I don't know, I've
> never used it. In reality I am just procrastinating.

Please use gnome-vfs. It already has the back-ends we need, and recent
versions use the same MIME system. There's a lot of interest at
freedesktop.org in unifying the vfs systems (gnome-vfs and kio-slaves),
so that file URLs can be shared between programs reliably, and new
filesystem backends benefit everyone. Creating a new VFS system won't help
things ;-)

The main difficulty seems to be allowing gnome-vfs to be used without
forcing people to link against it if they don't want to.


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