Re: GVfs status report

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 09:15 +1000, tpgww onepost net wrote:
>> Hello all
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> 
> Most of the stuff you mention is in gio already, like mime types,
> application mapping, etc. Some things are not, mostly things no apps
> use. But there are some things that we might have to move to somewhere
> else. The one thing i can think of is configuration of uri-handlers like
> mailto: (due to it using gconf). 
> 
>> Will the the gnome-vfs approach to "compound" URI's (IMHO "fragmented
>> URI" doesn't sound too good) be retained?
> 
> No. That never worked very well, nor is it imho a good user interface
> for this. I think opening file-roller is better.
>
I agree that it nevered worked well, but I liked the feature. File roller is
imho quite annoying. One cannot even use drag'n'drop between file-roller and
nautilus. Of course its arguable wheter to have tow interfaces for files and
archives is good or bad.

Stefan