[PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave

[Matt Rogers]

On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:

> On Sunday 13 January 2008, nf2 wrote:
>> Apart from the desktop/toolkit independence (just GLib and D-Bus) and
>> that one VFS is always better than two (For 3rd party applications  
>> the
>> situation was like the donkey stuck between two haystacks, they  
>> avoided
>> to choose KIO or Gnome-VFS - which sucks) - yes - i think GIO/GVFS is
>> better than KIO and you will want that stuff.
>
> Some of the things you mentioned sound nice, but apart from the  
> requiring glib
> thing, I have a few questions:
>
> First, on http://live.gnome.org/GioToDo it says, "There is some  
> parts of gio
> that should really be in Gtk+ that apps might need. Long term this  
> should go
> into Gtk+, but for now we might want to put these in a separate  
> desktop
> library so that apps can start using gio easily before the next Gtk+
> release."
>
> While these classes could be worked around by having KDE  
> implementations, I
> find it a bit troubling that they want to move some parts of GIO  
> into GTK.
> Then your dependencies go from glib/dbus to glib/dbus/gtk, at least by
> default.  What other parts of GIO/GVFS might they at some point  
> decide really
> belong in GNOME-specific libraries?
>
> From http://fosswire.com/2007/11/25/goodbye-gnomevfs-hello-giogvfs/
>
> "One complaint about GnomeVFS is that mount points cannot be  
> accessed by
> non-GnomeVFS-aware applications. GVFS uses a FUSE bridge to make these
> publicly accessible...This FUSE bridge makes it possible for  
> literally any
> application to use GVFS, even if it is not aware of it."
>
> Perhaps something to consider for KIO in the future?
>
> Personally, I'm all for a single network transparency library (or a  
> single
> authentication caching library, which would serve the purpose).  I  
> do think
> it's utterly stupid that the GNOMEs couldn't contribute to KIO,  
> which already
> has a bazillion working, useful KIOslaves, unless they felt (as  
> they seem to)
> that GIO/GVFS is better by design.  Still, it does reek a bit of  
> "we just
> can't allow ourselves to use anything with a K in it" syndrome.
>
> --Jeff


The other problem is that FUSE is not cross platform. They don't  
indicate that anywhere on their page. So then we end up with a  
solution that only works on linux. I would guess that this  
practically leaves out using GIO/GVFS as a default mechanism, but i  
don't know for sure.
--
Matt


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