Re: Major change in desktop handling

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 11:14, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 19:24, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > The new system works very differently. The desktop icons (trash, home
> > and volume icons) are all in-memory objects. They are implemented like
> > "virtual files" and put in the desktop view by some deep magic.
> 
> 	This is great work; however - for those who love to re-write
> everything; how easy is it going to be to cut and paste this into the
> new file selector code ;-(
> 
> 	Or in other words; is the deep magic at the gnome-vfs level ?

No. The deep magic is just in nautilus internals. It should be easy to
do in a file selector though. The hard part is the volume monitor. At
some time we should possibly move that down the stack, although with the
horrible mess it is now I don't like that idea.

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