Re: [Usability] moving or copying when drag'n'dropping

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:49 -0600, Alex Mauer wrote:
> Shaun McCance wrote:
> > 
> > It works like this:  If the source and destination
> > folders are on the same file systems, then the file
> > is moved.  Otherwise, it is copied.  Network servers
> > and such are treated as their own file system.
> > 
> 
> Does this apply to any form of network server, or just based on
> gnome-vfs' URLs (e.g. smb://).  Can it detect that paths on afs, nfs,
> sfs, etc. shares are network locations?

It doesn't need to know they're network locations.  They're
mounted, so they work exactly like local file systems work.
An AFS share on /mnt/afs is a different file system than an
NFS share on /mnt/nfs, for the same reason that /dev/hda1 on
/home is a different file system than /dev/hdb1 on /var.

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Shaun