Re: Plans for gnome-vfs replacement

[matt <matt vitalitservices co uk>]

May a newbie Windows convert make a suggestion or two ?


1) Could you please make it stop telling me I'm wrong ?

For example :-
I'm trying to get to grips with monodevelop and I save some data out as 
xml, with .txt extension.
I do this to make it easier to hand edit to insert specifically 
malformed bogus test cases before re-loading it into my test application.

Double clicking on the "myxmlfile.txt" results :

Expected
Launch gedit and read in the file.

Actual
It tries to tell me I'm wrong !!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok so try to open it in gedit and gedit just wines about it's type !!!!!

Please tell me how to tell it easily that I *seriously* want it treated 
as a text file or as a csv or as anything I tell it whenever I say so - 
how dare it try to out guess me!  By all means notify me in the 
properties for the file, but otherwise please tell me how to make it do 
as it's told !


2) Could you get it to mount the file systems so that they are available 
from the shell as well as the gui ?
Sorry, this is another Windows hangover, but is none the less incredibly 
frustrating.

I have no idea how anyone else works around these, but to smooth the 
transition for some of us former Microsoft users these may help.

Best Regards

Matthew Snook