Re: gnome-ppp [was: Re: the future of GNOME Applets]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 10:51 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:25 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 18:10 +0200, Vladimir Djokic wrote:
> > > i want to make ppp:/// URI for all PPP connection using gnome-vfs for
> > > gnome ppp
> > 
> > Ah god, please no.  ppp:/// is not a file system so should not be a
> > gnome-vfs method.
> 
> I agree with Ross. For the same reason printers do not get displayed in
> nautilus, internet connections shouldn't either.
> 
> It's a very windows based school of thought.

I agree very very much to this, and will deny any such patches to gnome-
vfs if they are proposed. (Although, of course, you don't need to patch
gnome-vfs to do it...)

Gnome-vfs is for file i/o. If you don't expect users to load or save
documents, presentations and things like that on it, don't make it use
gnome-vfs.

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