Re: [GNOME VFS] gob inside gnome-vfs ...

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 21 Jun 2002, Ian McKellar wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 10:53, Alex Graveley wrote:
> > [1] Instead, why isn't time being spent on things apps can actually use
> > to make visible changes... a capabilities api, a metadata api outside of
> > nautilus, a file searching interface, fixing the http module, cleaning
> > the existing disgusting code, GThread-izing, security-auditing, *archive
> > support*, blah blah blah blah... [2]
> 
> what, like gnome-vfs-metadata.gob?
> 
> On the cards for 2.2 are (according to my scribbled notes from the mini
> gnome-vfs conference that Seth and I had over mexican food and gelato a
> little while ago):
>  - metadata
>  - capabilities
>  - improved ssh module (based on libssh - when I finish it)
> 
> Stuff we would like to do is:
>  - add a file-locking api (flock/nfs-safe locking/webdav locking)
>  - http post abstraction (people keep whining)
>  - http improvements (finish cookie support, redirection support, etc)
>  - mime improvements and rewrite - hopefully in conjunction with KDE

Can we please have some sort of password/authentication caching daemon. 
It is very painfull to use e.g. smb in a program with several out of 
process components, because you have to enter your password for each 
component.

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