Re: Gnome VFS - plans for Gnome 2.8



Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:

> For gnome-vfs in Gnome 2.8 we will focus on finishing up the volume
> changes that were started in Gnome 2.6, and making gnome-vfs really
> work well for applications reading remote files. This is much more
> important now with the new file selector and its gnome-vfs
> support. Hopefully it'll lead to more Gnome applications using
> gnome-vfs to load files. 
> 
> Some stuff that I'd like to see done:
> 
> smb: needs some polish. It shouldn't block for as long time as it
> currently does when enumerating workgroups. Also, we need to expose
> the current workgroup setting in the UI somewhere, and in general
> handle workgroups/domains a bit better.

Can we look into getting rid of that .desktop file hack that we use
currently in the smb method, and adding some form of native API for
redirects?  Currently you can't browse the smb:// uri space in the
GtkFileChooserDialog, as it does not know how to handle desktop files.

Thanks,
-Jonathan



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