Re: GVfs status report

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 18:01 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mardi 04 septembre 2007, à 11:03 +0100, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > Hey Alex,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:35 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > After some time away from GVfs I'm now back working on it. In order to
> > > get people to start looking at it I'm sending this status report. I'll
> > > also try to send more regular status reports in the future.
> > <snip>
> > > If we want to use gvfs in Gnome 2.21 there are two possibilities:
> > > 1) Release next glib before the next Gtk+ release
> > > 2) Temporary ship gio in a separate module, which we later move to glib
> > >   (pkg-config should magically make this work for users as long as the 
> > >   packages etc conflict properly) 
> > > 
> > > Both of these have the disadvantage that we can't use gio in
> > > Gtk+. There are a bunch of UI helper dialogs etc that would be nice to
> > > have there, but they are not critical.
> > 
> > The latter woul mean some GNOME applications losing authentication
> > support in the migration if they don't implement that portion of the
> > code themselves.
> > 
> > Would it be completely out of the question to have a GTK+ release for
> > the sake of gio/gvfs?
> 
> With the GNOME release team hat on my head: I think there's a big
> interest in using gvfs in 2.21, but it'd be nice to know at the
> beginning of the cycle whether we'll do it or not.
> 
> So coming up with a plan soonish would be great from the GNOME point of
> view :-) (of course, the plan can be "wait for 2.23")

We can always go for egg cut'n'paste for the applications that choose to
use gvfs in their UI, and need auth support.

I'd be happy to use it in Totem.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>