KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)

[Benoit Jacob]

2009/10/30 nf2 <nf2.email at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ah and one more thing.
>>
>> I can sense responses about "the kernel's VFS doesn't support this or
>> that important feature" coming soon ;) As in this blog post about GVFS
>> and FUSE (which also shows that, predictibly, people already had the
>> same idea that i was proposing):
>> http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=104
>>
>> The answer is that, if really current kernels lack a particular
>> feature, then that's a perfect occasion to go talk to kernel devs!
>> Don't I seem to remember that recently (at GCDS?) one of them asked
>> you guys if you had feature requests? And as I said in previous
>> e-mail, on OSes where we can't communicate with kernel devs, just keep
>> the statu quo.
>>
>
> I think it definitely makes sense to work on the ideal solution.
>
> But there is this saying that the best solution is the enimy of the
> good solution. And I rather prefer having the good solution tomorrow,
> instead of just waiting for the "best" solution another five years.
>
> While it's definitely a nice feature (another point why KDE should
> adopt GVFS), there is a reaon why GVFS just provides FUSE as a
> secondary channel. For instance FTP can't be mapped into the expected
> POSIX behavior properly, therefore GVFS just mapps FTP read-only.

Ah OK. That sounds like a more fundamental argument why my proposal
won't work in the short-term, and why it would require kernel-level
changes that will take a long time to happen.

Benoit