Re: GVfs status report

[nf2 <nf2 scheinwelt at>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 09:15 +1000, tpgww onepost net wrote:
>   
> > A while back there was some discussion about a per-user? file, in
> > effect a virtual fstab for gvfs mountpoints. Would that be stateful in
> > the sense of replicating mtab as well ? How would passwords be
> > managed ?
> >     
>
> I know that nf2 scheinwelt at is working on something like that for
> fuse. Its independent from gvfs, and I haven't looked at it in detail.
>   

Yes - it's called "libfusi". It's the "fuse only" approach for network 
mounts, thought as a short term cross desktop solution. IMHO gvfs 
requires gio to become the standard file-management API for the majority 
of applications, also for KDE. This would be cool, but might take a while.

However, the way libfusi manages network mounts, might be a pattern for 
gvfs: It specifies schemes of required/optional and standard/advanced 
mountpoint properties and remembers them in a kind of "virtual fstab".


> For passwords, well, when executing a mount you pass in a
> GMountOperation object where you get callbacks when things like
> passwords or answers to other questions are required. This can use
> gnome-keyring, and I think we should have some standardized code in Gtk+
> that you can use for this.
>
>   

Does that mean Gtk+ will to depend on gnome-keyring? Or will it just be 
a Gtk+ plugin?