Re: [Nautilus-list] Chained URIs and archive viewers.

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 05:35  PM, Ian McKellar wrote:

> The issue was that I accessed the gnome-vfs "viewer" by navigating to a
> to a different url. I'm sure theres a better way, but I wasn't doing it.

I think we probably want to hide this different URI. I've worked out in my 
mind how this might function, and the one thing I'm still stuck on is 
figuring out how the shell can know that "Up" from 
"file:///home/darin/archive.tar#tar:///archive_dir" is "file:///home/darin/
archive.tar" with the viewer set to see the inside of the archive rather 
than "file:///home/darin/archive.tar#tar:///". The current data tells us 
that we can append "tar:///" given a file that is of the proper MIME type,
 but doesn't give us a way to go the other direction.

This is no problem for simple zipped files.

I think I should probably tackle this at some point. I think it will be 
the Nautilus shell's job to keep track of the multiple URIs. As far as the 
view component is concerned, the URI will be the fancy one, but the user 
will see only the simple one.

One other detail to consider is what to tell sidebar components. If we don'
t tell them about the full URI with the #tar suffix, then the information 
will be about the tar file, not the top level directory inside the file.

    -- Darin