Re: GnomeVFS backend for GtkFileChooser

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 04:38, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> You should it the other way around and put the gnome-vfs backend in
> GTK+, leaving an option (compile-time switch and separate run-time
> package) for those "pure" guys who absolutely don't want GTK+ to depend
> on gnome-something. From a GNOME perspective, having GTK+ depend on
> gnome-vfs seems to be just about right.
> In either way the inconsistency between the different backends is still
> there.

Putting the vfs backend in gtk itself, with the
--enable-gnome-vfs=yes/no/auto also makes sense to me. However I think
it currently creates a circular build dependency due to gconf, as a
practical matter.

gnome-vfs and gtk+ are the two reasonable places to put this backend
IMO.

Havoc