[gvfs/metadata: 4/12] More API ideas described

[Alexander Larsson <alexl src gnome org>]

commit 247b53993e0eb66c459413cefb90338d9a956f29
Author: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
Date:   Thu Jun 18 09:07:11 2009 +0200

    More API ideas described

 metadata/API |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/metadata/API b/metadata/API
index d8c8b65..8779d2a 100644
--- a/metadata/API
+++ b/metadata/API
@@ -5,18 +5,26 @@ usecases:
 gio - query_info for local/gvfs path
 gio - enumerate for local/gvfs path, get info for all children
 This can get all or selected keys
+also want async ops for gvfs async ops, via dbus reads, same uses
 
 tracker
 enumerate whole tree, look at mtime
+Even for non-mounted trees
 
 nautilus
 get value by key + path
+Can use gio/gvfs as the API
 
+gio extensions:
+need extension for local file metadata reading and writing
+for gvfs, put in GDaemonVfs, one tree per mountspec
 
 Ideas:
 Redo things always, use dentry cache for non-leaf path lookups
 callback for enumerate
 
 
+add ref/unref for trees
+
 Questions:
-How to handle strings vs lists in API?
+How to handle strings vs lists in API? There is no such thing in GFileInfo...