Re: VFS for legacy apps (was: gvfs status report)

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:51 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:38 +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:

> > You're probably always going to need type, server and share though, so
> > maybe you can make it a bit more readable:
> > 
> >   ~/.mounts/smb:$server:$share/dir/file.txt
> > 
> > Extra options can go on the end.
> > 
> > Also I'd probably avoid ';' just in case bash goes anywhere near it.

> Sure, those are requred. But say we have two optional things, like user
> and domain, as in smb:server:share:user:domain. But what do we then do
> if user is unset, but domain isn't. I guess one could do
> smb:server:share::domain. Still, it requires very specific handling of
> each type of share with a specified option order etc. A key=value
> approach is more generic.

I suppose

~/.vfs/smb:$server:$share/dir/file.txt:option=$value:option=$value

is a workable compromise. It might even be what Damon was indicating.
Now that we're picking on details, I'd say that .vfs or .gvfs would be a
better base directory than .mounts too.

-- 
Hans Petter