Re: [GNOME VFS] Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus and gnome-vfs

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Sounds great! I'll be happy to provide you with any information/help you
need.

cheers,

-Seth

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 00:56, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le jeu 07/03/2002 à 06:11, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> > 
> > "Shahms E. King" <shahms shahms com> writes:
> > > While reading the recent thread about .desktop file editing in Nautilus,
> > > it occurred to me that the desktop itself should probably be a gnome-vfs
> > > URI (desktop:/// anyone?) so I actually took the five minutes to add to
> > > the libdesktop module in gnome-vfs (the appropriate change in nautilus
> > > was similarly trivial), in fact the changes were so simple (and come
> > > with so many other potential benefits, like, say administrator mandated
> > > desktop items -- has some drawback, but I digress) without impacting
> > > Nautilus' ability to "Use Home Directory as Desktop" that I figured I'd
> > > ask why before submitting the appropriate patches ...
> > > 
> > 
> > A desktop: URI is quite a nice idea, I think.
> 
> I think so, that is why I implemented it in MandrakeSoft version of
> Nautilus 1 :))
> 
> I needed a "merged" version of the desktop with the user desktop and
> some dynamically added icons (ie when you plug an MP3 player, icon
> appears on your desktop, same with webcam..) and I made an UGLY patch at
> the nautilus level (used the nautilus merged directory class) to handle
> desktop: URI..
> 
> I submitted for review but Darin (with good reasons) though it needed to
> be re-thought with a better design..
> 
> Unfortunately, I hadn't time to redesign it but I'll be more than happy
> to fix that for Nautilus 2, when my work on Mdk 8.2 will be finished..
> (I should have time after March 15th..)
> 
> Since I didn't follow gnome-vfs for GNOME2 modifications very closely,
> I'll probably need some infos (I don't really understand the differences
> between the vfolder and desktop module..). And for cause, we need FAM
> monitoring for desktop: URI (but it seems gnome-vfs for GNOME has
> already fam monitoring..)
> -- 
> Frédéric Crozat
> MandrakeSoft
> 
> 
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