On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:53 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:49 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > I see that there has been no update to the lastest verson of the draft, > > even if it expires 31 May 2005. Does anyone know the status of this? > > I spoke to quickly. This is now RFC 3987 since January 2005: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
Ok. I've studied this a bit, and i think it would be quite possible to use URIs as the lowlever serialization form (i.e. what is passed between apps as commandline arguments, and DnD), but use absolute filenames if posible, and otherwise IRIs in the nautilus/file-selector location entry. Not only is this standardized and likely to be used more and more, its also already supported in e.g. firefox. The only disadvantages I see are: 1) The mapping to FUSE filenames will be less intuitive 2) We can't implement simple kio and gnome-vfs modules that automatically supports all gvfs files. Instead we have to continue to rely on hoping %u being in the desktop file means all applications support the same type of URIs. (Which isn't true) 3) Windows doesn't use uris as its shell namespace, so we have to make up some sort of gtk-specific mapping from their identifiers to some custom uri scheme. We could just not support windows shell extensions, but it would be nice to access things like "My Documents" properly. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] He's an otherworldly crooked inventor with acid for blood. She's an elegant hip-hop single mother descended from a line of powerful witches. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list gnome-vfs-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list