Re: GnomeVFS backend for GtkFileChooser

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 14:06, Chipzz wrote:
> Nobody mentioned the approach taken in the following patch yet though..
> I saw it pass on the debian-gtk-gnome mailinglist a couple of days ago:
> 
> http://members.chello.nl/~h.lai/gtkenhancements/
> 
> What is being done is just copying the needed structures to a header
> file withing gtk+, and opening the libraries at run time if they exist.
> 
> While I agree it is an ugly hack, I DO think it's the best approach: we
> don't introduce a (build-)dependency on gnome-vfs in gtk+ or vice versa,
> and as an added bonus pure gtk+ apps can benefit from the extra functio-
> nality without having to depend on libgnomeui (for the icons).
> 
> I think you get the best of both worlds this way, but I'm afraid it will
> be shot down with the argument of "ugly hack" :/

We're discussing the real new GtkFileChooser file selector replacement
here, not hacks of the old GtkFileSelection.

GtkFileChooser is designed to handle file system backends as dymaically
loaded modules, though the code to implement that hasn't been written
yet.

Regards,
						Owen