Re: gvfs status report

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:18 +0100, Raphael Bosshard wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> that sounds amazing. Especially the part about how "the local file 
> backend exposes xattrs and selinux attributes" makes me feel all warm 
> and fuzzy. Metadata! :D
> 
> Will it be possible to querry the deamon about the running operations 
> and manipulate them? That way it would be very easy to create a 
> "transfer manager" for all active transfers using gvfs. I think that OSX 
> has something similar?
> 
> No more seperate dialog windows for Epiphany, GFTP, Nautilus and so on. 
> Everything available in one applet...

In general I agree with the idea of a common "dialog" for all progress
bars, but doing it at the gvfs level is *far* to lowlevel. When reading
a directory in nautilus there will be thousands of requests for various
data. Anything that will be shown in a UI will have to be op-in from the
application side so that only "user initiated" operations show up, and
so that we can get decent strings and progress reporting for the
operations.

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