Re: [PATCH] GNOME VFS support for dia (2)

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden schemamania org>]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
> And perhaps most importantly, not being a Gnome developer, I (and
> others) would like to hear what using Gnome VFS adds to Dia?  It's a big
> patch, after all.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gnome-vfs/file-operations.html

It should let you plug in a URL anywhere you'd use a filename.  It would
be an extraspecialwonderful thing to lean on to link diagrams.  

There's nascent discussion at freedesktop.org (provoked by Havoc, no
surprise) of formulating a VFS framework that Gnome and KDE could use and
share.  

--jkl