[Portland] libxdg-vfs - screenshots

Karol Pietrzak kap4020 at rit.edu
Tue Jun 27 19:06:03 PDT 2006


On Monday 26 June 2006 08:53, nf2 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have written a little VFS-browser demo using "libxdg-vfs". There are
> some nice screenshots at the bottom of this page...
>
> http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/doc/libxdg-vfs.ht
>ml
>
> It's possible to walk around the hierarchy provided by the VFS libraries
> (KIO and Gnome-VFS), to peek into remote ftp/smb shares and so on...
>
> The idea behind this experiment is to align the behavior of KIO and
> Gnome-VFS in a common frontend API which could be used from
> cross-desktop applications and even file-dialogs (like GTKFileChooser).
>
> The whole undertaking is quite tricky - i had to add features like
> 'diving' into desktop-entries automatically, querying icon themes and
> root-URIs (system:/ on KIO and computer:/// on Gnome) and returning
> icon-names when listing a directory...
>
> Although there are still some problems - epecially with Volumes (Drives)
> - the experiment shows that this approach might work...

I just wanted to say that looks awesome. :)  Keep up the great work, Norbert!

-- 
Karl Pietrzak
kap4020 at rit.edu
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/portland/attachments/20060627/0ac4bc89/attachment.pgp


More information about the Portland mailing list