Re: GtkFileChooser and GVFS backend

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 03:31 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> > Now when we have a good VFS/GIO in glib why not just deprecate
> > GtkFileSystem API and some of the GtkFileChooser API and only have one
> > "backend" namely GIO. If I am correct GIO already working backends for
> > native Windows/Unix and by that we dont need the old GTkFile* stuff?
> 
> Yeah, I think so, I even wonder whether we need to keep supporting
> filesystem implementation modules now that we have a canonical
> filesystem abstraction in glib, this would also help develop some helper
> API like:
> 
> GFile * gtk_file_chooser_get_file (GtkFileChooser *file_chooser);

Yes, both of these are part of the long-term plan. However, we need to
have the GtkFileSystem module for the next gnome module, as that will
have the new glib, but not a new Gtk+.