Re: GtkFileChooser API work

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 06:08, Danilo Segan wrote:
> Ñ?Ñ?еда, 10. Ñ?епÑ?ембаÑ? 2003. 08:32:49 CEST â?? Mark Roach напиÑ?а:
> > 
> > Without support for these launchers, I guess you would have to
> > "bookmark" the http or ssh or smb location in some file-selector
> > specific way or else type them in manually every time you wanted to
> > select files from that location.
> >
> 
> I think the problem here is that you cannot make Gtk File selector  
> depend on Gnome stuff (like gnome-vfs which is used for all that  
> magic).

Those links are, as I understand, just .desktop files, which are
standardized w/ freedesktop.org and not just a custom GNOME format.

> 
> That would break all the apps that don't have idea of URIs, and that  
> don't use gnome-vfs for accessing data.

That's already (mostly) taken care of in that the API lets the app
specify if it can handle networked URIs or not.  Which may be a little
problematic since the app may handle http:// URLs but not, say, smb://
URLs, but oh well. :(

> 
> It could also instill some "circular" dependencies (eg. gtk+ -> gnome- 
> vfs -> gtk+), but it might be possible to get it to work.
> 
> Of course, all of this is just guesswork on my part :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
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