Re: Proposed module: gvfs

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Dec 22, 2007 6:35 AM, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it> wrote:
>
> Il giorno gio, 20/12/2007 alle 16.40 +0100, Alexander Larsson ha
> scritto:
> > svn/git/bzr/...: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gvfs/
> >
> > Short description:
> > ==================
> > gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem implemented as a pluggable module
> > for gio (a new module in glib). The glib part of gio supports the
> > general APIs required for a virtual filesystem, but only has an
> > implementation for local files. GVfs is a unix-specific implementation
> > that uses out-of-process mount daemons and dbus for talking to the
> > daemon.
> >
> > gio is part of glib 2.15.0 and will be released on schedule for gnome
> > 2.22. Both eel and nautilus has been converted to use gio instead of
> > gnome-vfs.
>
> BTW what about the gvfs backend for gtkfilechooser? Could we put it in
> Nautilus waiting for next GTK+ release?

The plan that has been discussed on gtk-devel-list is to put the gvfs
backend in libgnomeui for 2.22, next to the gnome-vfs backend.
Longer-term, gio will make the need for filechooser backends go away.

Matthias