[gedit-list] gedit and gnome-vfs

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

Hello paolo,

I talked to seth (gnome-vfs maintainer) while in GUADEC.

We found the problem with loading files like : "../../../foo/foo.txt"
and the thing is that we need to compose a URI from a full URI
description like "file://home/chema/cvs/foo/foo.txt". However
since this is a general problem seth told me that there should
be a convenience funcion inside gnome-vfs. Can you please file
a bug report so that seth can implement this ?

He also told me that he is interested in comments of the gnome-vfs
API. He says that not a lot of people outside nautilus are using
it and that it might be missing a function or two. So please comment
on the api if you find something that could be improved.

We also need to load files asyncronously so that gedit does not block
if for example the network is unreachable. We can need to put up a
dialog with a cancel button. gnome-vfs will start another thread while
the file is downloaded. I don't know if there is a timeout in gnome-vfs
but if there isn't we can easily implement one inside gedit (althou
it should eventually be inside gnome-vfs)

regards,
Chema