Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Biju Chacko wrote: >>> I always thought >>> xfce is supposed to be an alternative for people that like to do without >>> all that additional, costly stuff. A separate vfs layer certainly would >>> go into that direction. >> Well, in xfce we've never followed the approach of "avoid features in >> order to avoid bloat". Fluxbox et al do a better job of that approach >> anyway. >> >> I think our approach has always been "balance features and bloat and >> always do it the *right* way"
I totally agree, I just don't agree that a separate vfs layer is "the right way". Implementing something on a higher level that is already present on a lower level is not "the right thing" in my opinion. I think the argument of supporting "additional information like metadata, mime/type etc" is fundamentally wrong, exactly because the Linux/UNIX/Posix VFS layer does not support it. So you have to implement the File/metadata mapping yourself anyway for 99% of all files you're ever going to manage. As far as I can see very few remote filesystems actually provide metadata and mime-type information that could be used directly by this higher level. SMB with NTFS might provide this, but I doubt anybody will write a thunar vfs module supporting NTFS streams in the near future. As for audio cds, mobile phones, etc.: they all do not provide this information at the moment. > <irony>Your best bet if you want a really lightweight solution is to > deinstall the operating system. Or even better, don't power on your > computer at all, that's a fantastic resource saver.</irony> That would not be a solution to manage files on a computer, would it? But you realize that yourself, you just wanted to make me look like a fool. Thanks a lot Tim > >> -- b > > Benedikt > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
