Re: multiroot-filechooser ready for merging

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 14:06 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I've been running Christian Hammond's multiroot-filechooser branch for
> about a month now, with zero ill effects.  This is not surprising, as no
> apps actually use the multirooting functionality yet; what is nice is
> that those apps haven't broken yet.
> 
> The past discussion is in bug #609886.
> 
> I took the original multiroot-filechooser-2-20 branch and rebased it on
> top of master, and pushed the result as a new multiroot-filechooser
> branch.
> 
> This is ready for merging into master, for 3.0.
> 
> Here's a quick summary of this branch.
> 
> * GtkFileChooser now has a "root-uris" property.  This is a G_TYPE_STRV.
> You can now do something like
> 
>   char **roots = { "file:///home/federico",
>                    "file:///mnt/corporate-share",
>                    NULL };
> 
>   gtk_file_chooser_set_root_uris (chooser, roots);
> 
> And then the file chooser will only show subpaths of those roots, and
> not let you navigate outside of them.  This will be useful for lockdown.
> Christian uses it in VMware to constrain where files may be picked from
> (a VM image or something, I suppose).
> 
> * Internally, the local-only flag has been reimplemented in terms of
> roots.  When you turn on the local-only flag, you are constrained to the
> "file:///" root - this means essentially the Unix filesystem, not weird
> non-native GVFS mounts.
> 
> * The path bar, and the file chooser in general, is smart enough not to
> let you climb up above the roots.  You can't Alt-up if you are in a root
> already, and the pathbar doesn't let you scroll further to the left.
> 
> * Shortcuts outside the roots are not shown.  Generally stuff outside
> the roots doesn't appear at all.  You can't autocomplete your way out of
> the roots by typing in the filename entry.

Symbolic links? To both the filesystem itself, and to directories under
~/.gvfs/. Are those blocked as expected?