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

[Josef Spillner]

Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004 14:12 schrieb Jason Keirstead:
> This is silly reasoning. That would be like me saying that kio_fuse should
> be added to the stock Linux kernel because then ncurses apps and KDE apps
> can use the same VFS library.

In that sense KIO is indeed something which does not belong to the desktop 
level, but since a lot of Unix-like OS (Linux, BSD) do not offer advanced VFS 
subsystems, it must be done within the library (or worse, application) 
layers.
This is why KDE has KIO, Gnome has G-VFS and so forth. This is why Windows, 
where there is not even a standard VFS in the library layer, or mc for that 
matter, implement it for each application.

This is why DCOP had to be invented, and D-BUS, and 
whats-your-next-favorite-buzzword-IPC-system.

This is why we have aRts and gstreamer and other soundservers - because the 
main development platforms of the people involved did not offer sufficient 
comparable technology.

It all comes down to interoperability. Thus, adding kio_fuse to the kernel 
might lead into a lengthy discussion/flame fests with the kernel people, but 
having it included in distros by default might lead into higher 
interoperability.

There is a lot of modern OS research being done, but the goal of Linux and BSD 
is primarily stability and migration, and thus we'll have to live with having 
several subsystems on top of the OS even though some OS already provide these 
features for us.

Josef