Re: Integrating support for GNOME VFS into glibc

[nf <nf2 scheinwelt at>]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:31, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> >
> > I liked it so much at one point that I did a proof of concept
> > implementation. Nothing more happened though. See this link:
> >
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2002-December/msg00123.html
> >
> 
> That's great! Are you still interested in pursuing further?
> 
> I tried it out but I always get the following error:
> 

I think the whole FUSE or Gnome-VFS-mount approach is very bad from
design. It messes around with layers that should be treated separately.
I think a clean design should look like this:   

http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/common-vfs/free-desktop-filemanagement.png

If you have one VFS (Gnome-VFS) which registers it FUSE handlers it
might work, but what if another VFS (KIO) also tries to do that in the
same desktop session? You end up totally confusing users.

Norbert