Re: VFS for legacy apps
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Nikolai Weibull <now bitwi se>
- Cc: "gnome-vfs-list gnome org" <gnome-vfs-list gnome org>, "gtk-devel-list gnome org" <gtk-devel-list gnome org>, Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>
- Subject: Re: VFS for legacy apps
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:17:08 +0100
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:26 +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:similar.
> >
> > I really think we should default to something directly in ~/ so that an
> > "up" operation doesn't get you to some weird hidden place. However,
> > honoring an env var sounds ok. (Of course, there is the risk that all
> > apps won't be honoring the env var.)
>
> Well, can't the location of the directory be hidden in the interface?
The whole idea of the fuse mounts is to handle 3rd party/legacy apps.
Sure, they could hide the fuse paths. In fact, ideally they should not
be used. However, being legacy apps they don't know about this, and they
will act like they got passed any normal pathname.
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