[PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Sunday 13 January 2008, koos vriezen wrote:
> 2008/1/13, nf2 <nf2 at scheinwelt.at>:
> > Oh well - unfortunately there is a really unlucky tradition on both
> > sides not to touch, nor even look at the other projects code. Feels a
> > bit like cold-war: Xdg standards were the maximum to get for
> > interoperability. Arms control agreements ;-). Common code? - no way.
>
> No, only more noisy. But if you read the arguments carefully than they
> seem to conveniently ignore that GIO is based on the matured gnomevfs,

GnomeVFS isn't mature at all.  It's horribly broken.  That's why there's the 
new GIO/GVFS in the first place.

> kio has a large rewrite as well and GIO main developer is a RH
> employee

Go figure.  Sometimes I wonder if anything happens in Gnome without RH 
instigating it, or giving its okay.

> glib getting attention from big companies like nokia and 
> intel.

In what way?

> KDE greatness is the user experience not the code running it.

Hear hear.

--Jeff