Re: Extending WebDAV featureset?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 19:39, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> El mar, 25-05-2004 a las 03:31, Alexander Larsson escribió:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 07:55, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:39:37AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > | I'm not sure exactly what it is you want to do, but its possible that
> > > | nautilus extensions will do what you want. You can try playing around
> > > | with it and see if it seems to work for you.
> > > 
> > > I've poked around on the docs and it seems what I want is to create
> > > some context menus and property pages. However, those should be made
> > > available depending on the existence of a specific namespace on the
> > > response to a PROPFIND. From the docs it doesnt seem like this should
> > > be possible, as they talk about registering stuff for mime types only.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to do this that the docs dont cover?
> > 
> > Not really. Gnome-vfs doesn't expose low-level properties of the
> > protocol like that. It tries to make everything look like a posix
> > filesystem layer.
> 
> Could a mechanism (in the spirit of a ioctl layer or sumthin) be made
> available on gnomevfs which would support that?
> 
> It would be awesome to "lock" a file in a webdav share by just
> right-clicking on Nautilus.  Or request specific server-supplied
> operations like "check in" or "approve".  Nautilus would then make a
> really really really really great workflow client, without any extra
> fuss.

There is an ioctl call actually, gnome_vfs_file_control(). The one nasty
thing about it is that its hard to proxy to the server (needs special
case code for each ioctl), but it might work for this.

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