Re: [gnome-db] datasources:///

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 17:53, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > Yesterday I was a bit playing with the "Network Servers" in garnome (you
> > > > know, network:/// in nautilus), and I had an idea.
> > > > What do you think about handling data sources in nautilus, for example
> > > > using datasources:///?  We could also create a "New data source" icon,
> > > > like "New Server" in the Network Servers window.
> > > well, nautilus views (which is what network: is) dont make sense for
> > > everything, and I think they don't for data sources. We already have the
> > > gnome-database-properties app, which shows up when you go to
> > > preferences:///Advanced in Nautilus.
> > > I don't think we should be adding a view for that.
> > Well, I thought that this was a good idea.   
> > Could you explain more in details why you don't want a nautilus view?
> > What do you think about fonts:/// btw?  Does it make sense?
> > As Adam mentioned, accessibility will be highly improved with a nautilus
> > view.  This is an important issue imho
> 
> So long as DataSources can be reached via preferences:/// I don't think it is a 
> make or break deal.  A seperate view or an associated application. 
>
right, we want to provide that quick access, but with an associated
application.

>  I'm not 
> certain how one would present data source configuration in a nautilus view.  
>
right, how would we do that? 

> fonts:/// is good, but it is read only.  You can't go there and edit the 
> attributes of a font,  I'm not sure how doing such a thing would look.
> 
but you can drop fonts there and make them available on the system.

> A nautilus datasource navigator (goining INTO a datasource) would be very 
> interesting  (following something like the tree view presented by dbvisualizer) 
> and a grid to edit table data.  But I don't know how scalable that would be.  
> For instance our database has 769 tables, 121 views, and lord knows how many 
> indexes.  Some tables have 3+ million records;  make a simple navigator could 
> be tough. {But I'd send pizza to the guy/gal who pulls it off}.  But I'm a huge 
> fan of GNOME-VFS and nautilus, so I'm biased toward such a thing.
>
right, it really doesn't make much sense to map all that DB structure to
a file system. I even tried it myself, starting writing the database:
gnome-vfs module (in libgnomedb CVS), but it's really a PITA to do so.

cheers