Re: Few questions on gnome-vfs

[Quentin Mathé <gnustep-quentin club-internet fr>]

Le 26 août 04, à 14:27, Alexander Larsson a écrit :

> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:13, Quentin Mathé wrote:
>
> > I plan to use gnome-vfs as a VFS backend in a GNUstep based desktop
> > environment. Well to do that, I would like to get rid of the libbonobo
> > dependency which induces many extra dependencies, and has no utility 
> > in
> > my case. I have seen that the gnome-vfs daemon is where libbonobo is
> > essentially used, but I don't understand what this daemon is useful 
> > for
> > and what I will lost if I remove it, I haven't been able to find any
> > documentation on it… ?
>
> Its used by some methods such as smb to share connections between
> processes and to get a known environment so that it can use things like
> the glib mainloop. It is also where the gnome-vfs volume handling is
> done so that not every process needs to handle this.
>
> In the future we're likely to use it even more.

ok, I see. I will take a look at the code more deeply to understand 
better how it is used.

> Well, appart from the vfs monikers, bonobo/orbit isn't really exposed 
> in
> the API, so it could be replaced. However, that is a fair amount of
> work, and until we decide that gnome can depend on e.g. dbus, we're not
> gonna replace the use of ORBit for gnome-vfs daemon communication in 
> the
> official gnome-vfs releases.

Well, is there any plan currently to develop a Free Desktop related VFS 
because I have seen such discussion in September 2003. I would be 
interested to work on a basic VFS with a modular architecture to extend 
it, which would permit to have optional support for MIME, HAL etc. in 
extra libraries or plugins. Are you interested by such development for 
GNOME… And in the case such VFS would be developed, moving away from 
gnome-vfs is something that you would consider ?
Do you think also, it would be possible for this VFS to be compatible 
in some way with gnome-vfs modules ?
Well probably we should talk about that on xdg list… :-)

Thanks,
Quentin.

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Quentin Mathé
qmathe club-internet fr