Re: [Nautilus-list] re: Desktop folder

["Shahms E. King" <shahms shahms com>]

I hate replying to my own post, but after actually looking at the
vfolder-desktop-method code, it looks like there is the intent (in the
"star trek future" ) of doing exactly what I was talking about here
anyway ;-)

--Shahms

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 17:05, Shahms E. King wrote:
> Well, to add yet another comment on this thread, I've been meaning to
> write a gnome-vfs module to make desktop:// into a vFolder-like
> structure such that, like libdesktop.so and libdestop-vfolder.so do now,
> only broader in scope, such that any number of gnome-vfs URI's (rather
> than just local files as it is now) can be merged together. The only
> important thing would be figuring out where to "write" new files (
> .gnome-desktop, or Desktop, or ~/ anyone?) this would take the burden
> off of Nautilus wrt to special things on the desktop, it would just use
> desktop:/// and the user, the administrator and the distributor could
> select/configure what actually shows up there.
> 
> Unfortunately, Real Life has been keeping me away from my coding lately,
> and I haven't had time to even look into it closely, let alone BEGIN
> writing it...
> 
> --Shahms
> 
> 
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