Re: use gvfs mount points

[Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte gmail com>]

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Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Is it normally safe to assume (and choke on a g_assert) that "~/.gvfs"
> mounts are available for non-local-path files (like sftp://whatever...)?
> Or is that bad behaviour?
>
> Is there an elegant way for an app to demand that .gvfs mount points be
> made available? What's best practice here?
>
> - Mike

Mike,

Those are only available if gvfs-fuse is installed... Also there is an
api call that gives you the local path to a uri object if gvfs-fuse is
installed..

g_file_get_path();

If gvfs-fuse is not installed this will give you a NULL pointer and then
you have to resort to a g_file_copy_async or g_file_copy_sync.

I found this and used this is gnome-mplayer.  You can see how I used it here

http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/source/browse/trunk/src/support.c

Look for the function get_localfile_from_uri

Hope that helps,

Kevin
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