Re: the work:/// protocol

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

man, 16.02.2004 kl. 08.59 +0100, skrev Alexander Larsson:

> 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).
> 
Not to mention that it's just about the only thing in the desktop that
is non-localisable. Having protocols with human readable names localised
into 60 different languages is a nightmare IMO.

Cheers
Kjartan