Re: File dialogs: Network access

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> > It should access the VFS, whatever that may be provided by.  If I'm not
> > mistaken, there is a gnome-vfs being worked on seperately from gfm, etc.
> > which would be used.  It may understand web sites or ftp directories and
> > the file-entry dialog simply needs to interface with that, not re-create
> > this functionality.
> 
> Thank you, second voice of reason.  I've said before I'm against adding FTP
> support, etc, to a common file dialog because it's fundamentally the Wrong
> Place for it.  You say Gnome VFS should handle it, and I think that's an
> interesting solution.  However, I think it'd be better if we just put hooks
> for it in the kernel and had a userland daemom for the specifics of the
> connection and population of the vfs (like of how userland NFS works).  The
> true VFS is the proper place as it guarantees a consistent view to all
> programs.  But then it's a linux-kernel discussion..

Please remember that GNOME isn't, and shouldn't be, tied just to Linux.
*BSD, HP-UX, and Solaris should be able to run it too... ;-)

I vote for the gnome-vfs (http://developer.gnome.org/arch/file/vfs.html,
but very outdated,
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/934991555/index_html, exactly one year
old).
I'm not a programmer, so please correct me if I'm way wrong.


Christian



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