Re: Progress on GtkFileChooser

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > >    Probably the right way to do this is to have a special root - say
> > >    'network-servers:' that has as children the toplevel URI for every
> > >    referenced network folder:
> > > 
> > >     network-servers:
> > >       http://www.gnome.org/
> > >       ftp://ftp.gnome.og
> > > 
> > >    Or whatever.
> > 
> > (Disclaimer: I have not seen gnomevfs
> > for very long time).
> > 
> > You might want to use mc's convention,
> > where you have /#ftp:ftp.gnome.org/.
> > You can't really bring http into picture
> > as http does not have a notion of directory
> > listing.
> 
> The current API's for GtkFileSystem don't interpret paths in
> URI's in any way. Rather, an they are just opaque strings
> with the file system having virtualized functions:
> 
>  - Find a parent path (if it isn't one of the enumerated
>    roots)
>  - Combine a parent path with a child name to form a child
>    path.
> 
> I'm strongly thinking of making the "path strings" not 
> correspond to URIs at all, and simply have functions to
> convert 
> 
>  path string => URI
>  path string => filename
> 
> At that point, a VFS backend could use MC syntax if it wanted
> to, and then convert ftp URI's to standard URI syntax
> on return.

Yep, that would work.

							Pavel
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