Re: Few questions on gnome-vfs
- From: Quentin Mathé <gnustep-quentin club-internet fr>
- To: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- Cc: gnome-vfs-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Few questions on gnome-vfs
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:32:58 +0200
Le 26 août 04, à 14:27, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:13, Quentin Mathé wrote:
I plan to use gnome-vfs as a VFS backend in a GNUstep based desktop
environment. Well to do that, I would like to get rid of the libbonobo
dependency which induces many extra dependencies, and has no utility
in
my case. I have seen that the gnome-vfs daemon is where libbonobo is
essentially used, but I don't understand what this daemon is useful
for
and what I will lost if I remove it, I haven't been able to find any
documentation on it… ?
Its used by some methods such as smb to share connections between
processes and to get a known environment so that it can use things like
the glib mainloop. It is also where the gnome-vfs volume handling is
done so that not every process needs to handle this.
In the future we're likely to use it even more.
ok, I see. I will take a look at the code more deeply to understand
better how it is used.
Well, appart from the vfs monikers, bonobo/orbit isn't really exposed
in
the API, so it could be replaced. However, that is a fair amount of
work, and until we decide that gnome can depend on e.g. dbus, we're not
gonna replace the use of ORBit for gnome-vfs daemon communication in
the
official gnome-vfs releases.
Well, is there any plan currently to develop a Free Desktop related VFS
because I have seen such discussion in September 2003. I would be
interested to work on a basic VFS with a modular architecture to extend
it, which would permit to have optional support for MIME, HAL etc. in
extra libraries or plugins. Are you interested by such development for
GNOME… And in the case such VFS would be developed, moving away from
gnome-vfs is something that you would consider ?
Do you think also, it would be possible for this VFS to be compatible
in some way with gnome-vfs modules ?
Well probably we should talk about that on xdg list… :-)
Thanks,
Quentin.
--
Quentin Mathé
qmathe club-internet fr
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