Re: File Selector and Bonobo?

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:35:34PM +0000, Gustavo J. A. M.  Carneiro wrote:
[...]
>   Also, I doubt that any gtk file selector will ever support gnome-vfs
> URIs[1], so I think it is important to keep a gnome file selector. Maybe
> the gnome file selector would be able to extend the gtk one to add VFS
> support. But in this case, the gtk team must be requested to design a
> file selector with extensibility in mind.
[...]
> [1] Unless gtk addes a gnome-vfs dependency, which doesn't make too much
> sense and seems impractical at this point.

You have not been following the discussion on desktop-devel in all its
myriad twisty paths. That (pushing the VFS layer down to where it's
either a hard-dependency or a runtime detectable thing for GTK) is
exactly what is being discussed over there in one of the
sub-sub-sub-threads. As for the "must be requested" part, I think it's a
matter of verious people coming up with a sane design that can be coded.
Simply insisting that other people do the design and coding is about as
effective as pushing water uphill.

This is a _very_ difficult issue with probably too many conflicting
requirements (and too many personalities involved to be resolved to the
satisfaction of all).

Malcolm

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