Re: VFS for legacy apps

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:12 +0100, nf2 wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:

> Perhaps application developers could be made aware of this mounting 
> issue by providing special functions in the gvfs api (to make 
> automouting possible, but in a controlled way).
> 
> if (!g_file_is_on_mounted_fs(GFile *f ...))
>     g_file_try_async_activate(GFile *f...);    // will pop up the login 
> dialog and mount
> 
> // ... work with the file ...

There is already a way to handle this. You get a not-mounted error, and
then you can call (always async) g_file_mount().

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