On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 19:07 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > If it isn't a method of storage, why exactly should you be accessing it > as if it were? And if you are accessing as if it were, why would you > want to treat it significantly different than a normal storage volume? > > It seems to me that the proper way to "sync" with the device, would be > through a synchronization API like multisync or whatever it is called > now, rather than trying to make it act like a filesystem.
Think of it as a server offering an NFS share: it's a different computer, but it offers you access to its filesystem. You can communicate with it in other ways too (via HTTP, for example). The same goes here: there IS a special synchronization API, but sometimes a user wants to access the device's filesystem directly -- perhaps to transfer a new album or movie to it, or anything like that. The SynCE project provides a GnomeVFS module for accessing the device's file system (synce://), I'm merely talking about UI aesthetics here. -- Yaron Tausky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
