RE: [gnome-db] datasources:///

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 18:02, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > Ok, I see your point. What about if we continued and made the 
> > > nautilus view to show some database objects (tables, views, 
> > > sequences and some user-defined queries) once a datasource is 
> > > 'enterer into' and then allow the user to modify data from  
> > > within nautilus in the same way they can modify the files 
> > > names within a directory?
> > > That could be a quick way to manage data. What do you think?
> > Nautilus is a _file_ manager.
> 
> Thats not really true.  Nautilus is a GNOME VFS object manager.  I manage non-
> file data via Nautilus
>
what non-file data do you manage via Nautilus?

>  and smb:/http:{Web DAV} all day (it isn't really a 
> filesystem on the other end of those connections either).
> 
well, those are ways to access files, which still applies for a file
manager's task.

cheers