Re: continued: Common-VFS proposal

[nf2 <nf2 scheinwelt at>]

Zack Rusin wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 21:25, nf2 wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have written a little docbook article:
> >
> > http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/common-vfs/concept/
> >
> > looking forward to your feedback...
> >    
>
> It's not that I don't appreciate a good joke from time to time, but you 
> either need to seriously reconsider the daily dosage of whatever you're 
> taking or wait with those emails until April 1st.
>  
Sorry for beeing impatient. ;-)

> On a more serious, I'm very glad someone is thinking about implementing 
> a common vfs layer but I hate to be the one to tell you that right now 
> it's not going to be you. Don't take it personally, but you don't seem 
> to have a clue about what you're talking about. And I'm sorry but your 
> dockbook document is just embarrassing. It probably stems from your 
> lack of understanding of both vfs subsystems or just ignorance of how 
> integration between desktops works.
>  
Then please help me to improve my document. I'm just a curiuos KDE/Gnome 
"user". I have written this document mainly to express my concern that 
freedesktop developers underestimate the importance of common 
infrastructure.
(Commercial desktops seem to provide lot's of that stuff which gives 
them a big advantage regarding consistency and usability)

> "Corba for IPC (DBUS can't be used here, because this requires 
> heavy-weight IPC)" is something I'm considering putting in my list of 
> signatures.
>  
Does that mean that CORBA in Gnome-VFS or the "homegrown" KIO slave 
protocol could be easily replaced with DBUS?

> But again, I very much appreciate your effort but as of now you just 
> don't have enough knowledge to implement it. You are of course more 
> than welcome to try and experiment but as it stands you could never 
> realistically expect that we would even consider using it. 
Don't worry. I'm a bit fed up with this free desktop stuff anyway.

> The most 
> realistic thing you can hope for is that people who either were or are 
> actually involved in creating VFS layers and desktop environments get 
> together on one of the conferences and nail this out. It's not going to 
> happen anytime soon though.
>
>  
Those people seem to be very secretive what concerns possible solutions 
to the problem.

Thanks for your encouraging response!

Norbert