[PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte 12 Gener 2008, nf2 va escriure:
> Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > Le jeudi 10 janvier 2008, nf2 a écrit :
> >> This patch extends the KProtocolInfo system to accept a special
> >> Multi-Protocol IO-Slave:
> >> [...]
> >
> > The patch itself looks fine code wise. That said...
> >
> >> [...]
> >> This patch has no effect on the behavior of KIO unless a Multi-Protocol
> >> IO-Slave .protocol file is installed. The aim of this patch is to allow
> >> to develop and test bridging into a cross-desktop network-transparency
> >> library without having to recompile or repackage kdelibs/kdebase
> >> (without having to remove .protocol files of the original IO slaves).
> >
> > If that's the only purpose of this patch, I'm not exactly hot to commit
> > it in kdelibs. I think it should be maintained in a kdelibs branch you
> > could use for your experiments, or as a patch in the same directory than
> > your ioslave.
> >
> > Because you're in a very early stage on this thing, if this patch gets
> > committed we'll have to support it for years... And what would happen if
> > you change your mind on the best way to achieve your goal? Or if finally
> > this ioslave doesn't deliver something usable? We'd be stuck with this
> > code exposing new API to maintain until KDE5.
> >
> > That's why I really believe it should stay close to your ioslave until
> > the situation on the matter is clearer.
>
> As the next release of Gnome (2.22 - planned to be released in March)
> will switch to GIO/GVFS, i think it's realistic to fully support
> GIO/GVFS in KDE 4.1. It should be quite stable and play all the major
> file-management protocols (sftp, ftp, smb, webdav) by then.

This is my first and last comment to this thread but i really don't see why we 
want that in KDE, it seems to me that we already support everything gio/gvfs 
does and probably better since our KIOs have been much more tested that their 
new gio/gvfs code, so i don't see the point in this unless it's another dcop 
sucks let's invent dbus say it's the standard and the force it into everyone 
else.

Albert

> Sharing a cross-desktop network-transparency library will give
> applications (be it GTK/Gnome/3rd party apps on KDE or KDE apps on
> Gnome) a significant boost in terms of usability (As they are not locked
> out of desktop specific file-management systems anymore). A wider choice
> of applications adds a lot of value to the free desktops in general.
>
> Therefore i believe making kio-giobridge work is an important short term
> goal. The necessary extensions - even if tagged as experimental - should
> at least be in the development branch of KDE. Testing - and contributing
> to - this bridge should be possible without having to patch and
> recompile kdelibs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Norbert