Re: gvfs status report

[Jerry Haltom <wasabi larvalstage net>]

I was going over this old posting and wanted to add some commentary.

In a perfect world, which we should try to achieve, of course, any such
passed uris would be canonical and resolvable within scope of both
machines. That is, full host names should be passed and both boxes
should be able to resolve them properly.

Now I recognize that this is a pie in the sky. But it is a good ideal to
hope for, and within any single network, and on an Internet where
everybody properly implements IPv6, probably ideal. Just make sure that
converting a GFile into a uri string considers this.

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:57 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:52 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:45 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > > While a laudable idea I'm not sure this is practical, at least not as
> > > the main approach. If I drag a directory from nautilus to some other
> > > apps, do you really want to transfer the full recursive copy of all
> > > files in the directory via X messages? Its not gonna be fast...
> > 
> > Well, if the 2 apps don't sit on the same computer, what else could you
> > want ?
> > Of course, as an optimization if the 2 apps are "local to each other",
> > they should just use the current behavior.
> 
> Actually, its more than a performance issue. What you really want is the
> file reference (i.e. filename), not the file contents. The app recieving
> the filename can do all sorts of things with it, not just read it. e.g.
> it could stat it, it could statfs() it to see what filesystem type it is
> on, it could traverse the filesystem up or down, or it could open the
> file and later save back to the same filename. All of these operations
> would have to be supported, and you need to be able to save the file
> reference persistantly, for say recent-files.
> 
> All in all, that seems hard to do via X.
> 
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