Re: GVfs status report

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:32 +0300, Stefan Kost wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 09:15 +1000, tpgww onepost net wrote:
> >> Hello all
> <snip>
> > 
> > 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.

Just yesterday nautilus got XDS DnD support, so now dragging from
file-roller should work.