[Portland] xdg-vfs

nf2 nf2 at scheinwelt.at
Sat Jun 10 15:44:43 PDT 2006


Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>   
>> 3) Where to park the source-code of xdg-vfs?
>>     
>
> Add it to xdg-utils in the understanding that it will not become part of
> xdg-utils 1.0
>   

Could someone please help me with the initial commit? (the sources: 
http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/)

I don't have an account yet and don't know your preferred location in 
cvs for such "external tools".

>   
>> 4) What about file-dialogs? I think the current solution with
>> 'xdg-file-dialog' or 'xdg-vfs openfiledialog' just won't work because
>> many applications need to customize filedialogs. In my opinion a VFS
>> interface like xdg-vfs should be 'used' by filedialogs rather than
>> providing them (that's why i also put functions like ls, mkdir,... into
>> xdg-vfs)
>>     
>
> I agree. Please add those thoughts to the TaskVFS page on the wiki.
> There are plans to look at the customization issue for the print dialog.
> Once we manage to come up with a solution there, the same solution can
> be used for the file dialog.
>   
Done that.

Cheers,
Norbert




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