On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 14:53 +0200, Mathieu Lacage wrote: > hi, > > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:15 +0200, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > > > > We still need to support URIs too at least in some places, because of > > > '%u' in .desktop files. If GNOME apps switched to using '%f', then > > > konqueror (and old versions of GNOME) wouldn't be able to pass remote > > > files to them any more. Likewise, if nautilus/libgnomedesktop didn't > > > support using URIs for remote files any more, then they wouldn't be able > > > to pass remote files to KDE apps. > > > > I think URI should still be used to refer to resources "from outside" > > and to contact the appropriate backends. But internally GFile or > > GFilePath objects should be used. That is, the user types in an URI, the > > library resolves the URI to a GFile and passes a serialized form of the > > GFile to the daemon. > > I remember asking in 2000 why gnome-vfs did not use GnomeVFSUri in the > API rather than raw uris but I cannot remember what the answer was. Does > anyone know the rationale behind not using a more abstract structure for > uris in gnome-vfs ?
It does. In some places, but not in others. In both ways in some places even! Its just a nightmare... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He's a notorious native American dwarf gone bad. She's a sharp-shooting cigar-chomping mercenary who dreams of becoming Elvis. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list gnome-vfs-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list