Re: Opening remote files in GNOME

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 08/10/04 02:01, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > gnome-vfs isn't gonna get any better if nobody uses it...
> >    
>
> More application would use it if it had less dependencies. Does
> gnome-vfs really need bonobo?
>  
If it wasn't using Bonobo, it would need to use something else to handle 
activation and communication with the gnome-vfs-daemon.

The gnome-vfs-daemon is needed to monitor volume mounts and unmounts 
(which includes asking apps to drop FAM watches on a volume before 
unmounting so the volume can actually be unmounted), and handling of VFS 
methods that would be expensive to run in each individual client.

These bits could be done without Bonobo, but you would just be switching 
one IPC/activation system for another.

James.

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