On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 10:08 +0200, Stef Bon wrote: > 2010/4/29 Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 12:35 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > >> Hello there, > >> > >> I just received a phone call from Stef Bon, a fellow Dutchman who's been > >> working on a Fuse technology based module to make it easier, and more > >> transparent, to a user, to mount, navigate and use pluggable storage devices > >> and network resources like Samba shares. > > > > From a quick glance, this is something that gvfs already offers, > > user-space filesystems and fuse integration for non-GIO applications. > Well there are some important differences. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the > Gnome VFS is providing a browing facility for applications, and if you're not a > Gnome App, and there fore cannot make use of these libaries, you'll > have to use the > fuse module. Non-GIO applications can still browse already mounted sources. Note that in all of your demos, you're using a file manager to browse those filesystems. Browsing the file system with a GIO-using file manager (Thunar or nautilus) would work about the same. > Mine is completely based on the fuse module (and the automounter to do > the mounting) > and does not depend on the desktop environment, it's just a level > lower: the filesystem. > > Second, I'm working on inotify, still thinking how to make it work. > Does it already work with Gvfs? Yes. See the g_file_monitor*() functions. > Futher locking, extended attributes, and seeking in afile is > supported by mine. Does Gvfs also? We don't have locking support, but the rest works fine. > Finally mine lacks good integration with hal (udisk) for local devices > to export the directory > where a device is available for the user. We have that as well. Cheers -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
