Re: State of gvfs in Gnome 2.21

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:16 +0100, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 23/01/2008 alle 12.17 +0100, Alexander Larsson ha
> scritto:
> 
> > These are the major regressions in the nautilus stack, but there are
> > also other uses of gnome-vfs in the desktop. Like the trash applet
> > (being worked on i believe) and the panel menus. I don't know the status
> > of these atm. Could people fill in the current status?
> 
> Epiphany trunk has already dropped gnome-vfs and uses gio, and we found
> no regression so far.
> I also made patches for EOG [1] and Evince [2] (not committed yet) to
> replace gnome-vfs but for Evince we miss g_file_copy_async () for parity
> with gnome-vfs.

Patches g_file_copy_async() are gladly accepted. Should be pretty simple
even. The default implementation using threads (via g_io_scheduler) is
easy to write by looking at the other async fallbacks.