Re: Some comments about GVFS

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 10:57 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 03:33 -0500, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:

> > I'm aware of the dangers - when I worked on Evolution, this caused
> > plenty of pain.
> > 
> > However, it's useful in very simple apps where you have e.g. a "Sync" or
> > "Connect" button which desensitizes most of the UI while the operation
> > is in progress, only updating a progress bar or allowing the user to hit
> > "Cancel". That's what I meant by a "program that lends itself to that
> > design" above :)
> > 
> > So I dunno. Maybe it's too seductive and should be eliminated as an
> > option.

> Avoiding this problem is one of the primary reasons of going from a
> stateless model (where you can get auth callbacks anytime) to a
> statefull model (auth only on mount). However, that problem in gnome-vfs
> happens for *all* apps, not only those that "lend itself to that
> design", so its a larger problem there.

Agree.

-- 
Hans Petter