Comix

GVFS or whatever it's called now has a module for treating archives as
directories. For supported archive types that allow random access (e.g.
zip), this would prob. be better than extracting to /tmp. Esp. for giant
archives when /tmp is on tmpfs...

I did a little googling and, theoretically, all you should need to do to
support this is add this snippet of code to your initialization:

try:
import gio
Open = gio.File
except ImportError:
try:
import gnomevfs
Open = gnomevfs.Handle
except ImportError:
Open = open

...and then make the following changes:

1. Replace all calls to open()/file() with Open() and adjust anything else
which operates directly on paths to operate on file-like objects instead.

2. Use this to enable VFS operation in your file picker:
if Open != open:
self.filechooser.set_local_only(False)

3. Use the same Open != open check anywhere you can't feasibly switch code
over to GVFS/GIO.

As a temporary measure, you can use evince (part of Gnome) to view your
comic book files and it supports files that are over smb:// urls.

So I guess this should be changed to "Use gio" instead :)

If it is added it will not be a requirement for running Comix.

But please don't make it a requirement. I'm a KDE user and the less GNOME
bloat on my system, the better. It's just that KDE people can't seem to
make decent image viewers. (I also use GQView for browsing my non-comic
images)