Re: the work:/// protocol

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 06:02, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 10:12, Luka Napotnik wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I have a gret idea. How about a gnome-vfs work:/// protocol thah allows
> > adding and editing user's projects. You could create projects(like
> > software development, documentation, drawing, ...) and then add files
> > and dirs to projects.
> 
> Why is this a protocol, rather than just a directory containing other
> directories?
> 
> I am genuinely confused about how you see this working. We only want to
> invent new protocols if the problem is not easily solved in some other
> fashion and I cannot see what problem you are solving here.

Yeah. It just seems to add problems and bugs. People have to realize
that adding new uris is not a good way to "organize" anything. Its a
horrible way, the few uris we have are already way to hard for normal
people to find (although we're working on integrating them better in the
ui).

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
                   alexl redhat com    alla lysator liu se 
He's a globe-trotting white trash rock star in a wheelchair. She's a 
transdimensional hypochondriac fairy princess with an evil twin sister. They 
fight crime!