On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 17:53 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:38 -0600, Sandino Flores Moreno wrote: > > Hello folks. > > > > Since I saw gmailfs (1), I wondered why gnome does not have a way to > > mount gnomevfs-uris on the linux filesystem. > > Gnome in general has to work on many unix versions. It can't depend on a > specific kernel. But we could use it in Linux so all applications will be able to access to remote locations and left the current code for unsupported platforms (and perhaps their developers could implement such support under their OS). As far as I know fuse is a library so you are not depending on the kernel directly. Users don't understand why they are not able to open files from remote locations on non GNOME applications. In fact, I don't know about any GNOME application that it's able to edit a remote file directly. > > Also, i personally think mounting things like this can be problematic. > There will be many posix details that the mounted filesystem won't > comply with, that an application using the normal filesystem might > depend on. You are right, it's a problem, but IMHO those are called bugs, and bugs are fixable and those kind of bugs are easily fixable than, for instance, add gnome-vfs support in emacs or any piece of software that is able to open files. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > alexl redhat com alla lysator liu se > He's a genetically engineered sweet-toothed sorceror in a wheelchair. She's a > man-hating snooty vampire with a flame-thrower. They fight crime! > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-vfs-list mailing list > gnome-vfs-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list -- Carlos Perelló Marín Ubuntu Warty (PowerPC) => http://www.ubuntulinux.org Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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