KIO->GnomeVFS bridge started (looking for a Common-VFS)

nf nf2 at scheinwelt.at
Mon Dec 20 16:14:11 GMT 2004


Hi!

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 13:37, Jason Keirstead wrote:

> I would think that it should try to find a KIO slave first, and fall back on 
> GVFS if absent. In a similar vein, if such a bridge were also written to use 
> KIO slaves in Gnome, I would expect they would prefer the GVFS slaves and 
> fall back on ours.

The GVFS slaves should have priority. Because then KDE & Gnome apps can
use the same VFS library.
> 
> Why would anyone would want a KDE application to prefer a GVFS slave over a 
> KIO one? No matter how good the bridge it would still not be as efficient as 
> a native KIO one.

I have written a little document to explain the benefits of a Common-VFS
library.

http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/common-vfs/COMMON-VFS-BENEFITS.html

cheers,
Norbert





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