On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:10 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 01:26 +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > 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. > > Going fully to a FUSE-like approach would mean a huge redesign of how > the desktop handles things like this, and that would only work on linux. > Doing both is not gonna work very well. But you are assuming that it will be only available under Linux and that's also fixable. > > > 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. > > Well. We need to fix them then. Sure, but I see it harder than a fuse-like approach, I don't think Gimp will be ever "fixed" that way, but If you use a fuse-like approach it will not need such fix. > > > > 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. > > The reason they don't follow posix semantics is that its not possible to > do so on non-posix backends. Could you give me concrete examples? I know that Apple is doing it since long ago with MacOSX and they mount more or less the same things gnome-vfs does (webdav, ftp, nfs, loop devices, smb and perhaps more types I don't remember at this moment) and they don't seem to have any problem. Cheers. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > alexl redhat com alla lysator liu se > He's a hate-fuelled devious hairdresser on the wrong side of the law. She's a > foxy psychic snake charmer living on borrowed time. They fight crime! > -- 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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