Re: gvfs status report



On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:54 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> In general I think that we will still use URIs to pass file references
> between apps when doing things like DnD, cut-and-paste or when saving
> filenames in config files. It seems hard to change this at this time,
> and it has some advantages in that other applications also understand
> such URIs (to some extent, vfs uris aren't always exactly like web
> uris).

I don't think gvfs is the right layer to deal with that, but
systematically using URIs for DnD is wrong: when you have a window from
a foreign computer (after all X11 is networkable), DnD from this window
should use some kind of transport-by-X11 protocol, not just transfer the
filename.

	Xav





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