Re: Plans for gnome-vfs replacement

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:53 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:49 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > I see that there has been no update to the lastest verson of the draft,
> > even if it expires 31 May 2005. Does anyone know the status of this?
> 
> I spoke to quickly. This is now RFC 3987 since January 2005:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt

Ok. I've studied this a bit, and i think it would be quite possible to
use URIs as the lowlever serialization form (i.e. what is passed between
apps as commandline arguments, and DnD), but use absolute filenames if
posible, and otherwise IRIs in the nautilus/file-selector location
entry.

Not only is this standardized and likely to be used more and more, its
also already supported in e.g. firefox.

The only disadvantages I see are:

1) The mapping to FUSE filenames will be less intuitive
2) We can't implement simple kio and gnome-vfs modules that
automatically supports all gvfs files. Instead we have to continue to
rely on hoping %u being in the desktop file means all applications
support the same type of URIs. (Which isn't true)
3) Windows doesn't use uris as its shell namespace, so we have to make
up some sort of gtk-specific mapping from their identifiers to some
custom uri scheme. We could just not support windows shell extensions,
but it would be nice to access things like "My Documents" properly.

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