Plugin-based auth/transport (WAS: SSH transport)

[Ross Burton]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 18:16 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> There's also a very strong reason not to do it: many applications are not 
> prepared to the fact that their peers aren't on the same machine.
> 
> I know many KDE applications that happily exchange file paths. To the 
> point, the whole KDE file watching mechanism (KDirWatch) was ported to 
> D-Bus and sends file paths back and forth. This will break if remote 
> applications are to use the local D-Bus indiscriminately.

If you exchange file://hostname/path URIs instead, won't that let you
catch it?  (which I believe the X dnd protocol recommends)

Ross
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