Re: GnomeVFS backend for GtkFileChooser

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 02:17, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now that GtkFileChooser is in the mainline GTK+, we have the problem of
> where to put the VFS backend.
> 
> GTK+ HEAD defines an internal GtkFileSystem interface.  When you create
> a file chooser widget, you can specify the particular file system
> implementation that it will use.  GTK+ includes a default
> GtkFileSystemUnix implementation, that uses the standard calls like
> opendir(), stat(), etc() that we all love and cherish.
> 
> The gtkfilechooser module on CVS now only has a GtkFileSystemGnomeVFS
> implementation which uses GnomeVFS instead of Unix calls.  The idea is
> that it will be able to do nifty stuff like browse Samba shares, or
> remote file systems via ssh.
> 
> Where should we put the implementation of GtkFileSystemGnomeVFS?  Having
> a stand-alone module just for it sounds silly.  If we move it to
> gnome-vfs itself, it would mean making gnome-vfs depend on GTK+.
> 
> What do people think?  Or does it make better sense to put this into
> libgnomeui [which is getting deprecated too fast for my taste, but...]

Can't we put the GtkFileSystem interface in glib or something, then
gnome-vfs can have the implementation without depending on gtk+?

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