libxdg-vfs and Gtk-Filechooser

[nf2 <nf2 scheinwelt at>]

Hi,

The experimental "libxdg-vfs" provides a generic interface to VFS 
libraries. It tries to autodetect the current desktop and then connects 
to Gnome-VFS or KIO by launching the backend executables xdg_vfs_gnome 
or xdg_vfs_kde.

http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/doc/libxdg-vfs.html

The target of "libxdg-vfs" would be giving applications access to 
ftp/smb shares etc... Of course this also involves bringing VFS access 
to filechoosers.

AFAIK Gtk-Filechooser has pluggable backends (GtkFilesystem). It would 
be interesting if it could also run on top of "libxdg-vfs". The problem 
is, that i couldn't find any documentation how to implement a 
GtkFilesystem module. Could you please give me an introduction and maybe 
tell me about the specific requirements for a GtkFilesystem? Perhaps i 
need to provide more functions through "libxdg-vfs": listing and 
mounting Volumes, obtaining icon-paths,...

Regards,

Norbert