Re: GNOME-VFS being deprecated

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com> writes:

> Martin Baulig wrote:
> 
> > Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com> writes:
> >
> > > because we can use monikers for that purpose.
> >
> > Sure, but if you for instance activate a file moniker, it will use the
> > GNOME VFS to actually load the file or not ?
> 
> I think the idea is from Miguel, so maybe we should ask him.
> This would also imply that we have to extend the Storage
> interface to support all features of the filesystem (symbolic links,
> access rights, ...)
> 
> gnome-vfs URIs has some drawbacks and there are still some
> unresolved issues (how to handle passwords). I wonder if
> monikers can provide a clean solution for that.
> 

We plan to fix these API limitations for gnome-vfs in future
releases. I doubt Nautilus will be changed to stop using gnome-vfs
unless an overwhelmingly better solution presents itself. I doubt
Storage and Stream will be it any time soon since they are not async
and can't be used from multiple threads because ORBit is not
threadsafe, so we could not use them without making the Nautilus UI
block all the time.

 - Maciej