Re: Feature and string break request

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

fr., 14.03.2008 kl. 16.50 +0100, skrev Alexander Larsson:
> I recently commited the archive backend written by Benjamin Otte to gvfs
> svn. Its technically a feature freeze break, but not really as the
> feature is hidden and more or less impossible to use as is, and it
> doesn't affect anything else (its a separate binary after all).
> 
> However, its a really really neat feature when integrated. Basically
> you'd click (or right click plus select the right menu item) on an
> archive and then you can access it read only from the mount. Much like
> how OSX handles dmg files, only it supports zip, tars, isos, etc.
> 
> The integration (in its simplest form, suitable for 2.22) is just a
> non-visible (for the panel menus) desktop file listing the right
> mimetypes as supported that when used (by default on open, or from the
> open with submenu) mounts the archive you selected. [Patch attached]
> 
> However, this patch adds one string, and breaks the feature freeze. But
> since this is an imho very useful feature, and is very unlikely to break
> anything else I'd still like to add it to gvfs for gnome 2.22.1. What do
> you think about this?
> 
Considering this is just one string and short time after the .0 release
I'm in favor of putting this in.

Cheers
Kjartan