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

[Andras Mantia]

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On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:27, nf wrote:
> My point is that there are certain areas where common infrastructure
> is necessary to make the free desktop "just work". The VFS is perhaps
> the most important candidate - but also the hardest part. Other
> problems can be - and already have been solved - with common fd.o
> standards.

IMHO the problem here is that we are talking about libraries and codes 
and not about file formats, standards or whatever. I would say that in 
the near (and maybe not in the far) future you will not be able to 
convince Gnome or KDE developer's to use each other's libraries, 
although you may convince them to use common resources so data can be 
shared. So a common way of storing passwords might be a good idea, but 
to have a single VFS implementation won't work as for example Gnome 
developers won't like C++ implementation and KDE developers don't want 
to work in C, when there is the good QT/KDE framework available in C++.
 So the best you can achieve with this is the possibility to use the 
other desktop's VFS if it's not available in the native desktop.

Andras

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