Re: tiff multi-document files

[George Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

On Jan 21, 2004, at 2:27 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> In some sense its sort of unfortunate that gnome-vfs uris are based on
> normal URIs, because that limits us a bit and in some cases it causes
> trouble because people expect that gnome-vfs should support all sorts 
> of
> things you can do with web-uris, such as mailto:, callto:, javascript:
> etc. In fact, we partially handle these by installing handler app
> settings for them, but in reality they are not really gnome-vfs uris.

Regarding the IETF docs, the thing I'm most interested in is to be sure 
that the grammar that they publish for URIs are the same as what 
gnome-vfs uses, so that URIs that are appropriate to the VFS can be 
generated from some external source, and be handled by a gnome-vfs 
client that doesn't necessarily know it's content.

> The way gnome-vfs currently handles chained uris is described in
> gnome-vfs/doc/uri.txt. Its working to some extent, but the work has
> never really been finalized and polished up to work in the desktop.

Thanks - the text files aren't in the release tarballs. Looking at them 
in cvs helps out a lot.

> To make it work you'd have to:
> * Work on the chained methods (zip, tar, gzip etc) to make them work
> better than they do today. The existance of the gnome-vfs daemon in 2.5
> should make this easier
> * Finish the work with putting chained uri handlers into the mime info,
> so that the file manager can now what file types are chainable
> * Make the file handler recognize chainable file types and browse them
> * Make all users of gnome-vfs correctly handle chained uris (i.e.
> gnome_vfs_uri_get_parent() on file:///some/file#foo:/ returns
> file:///some/file.)


Thanks for the laundry list - I can start working toward these. I'll be 
away from email for a few days, but I'll be working my way through the 
new code over the course of the week.

- George