[Portland] PortlandVFSProposal

[nf2]

Martin Konold wrote:

>Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 21:46 schrieb nf2:
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>>majority of the PortlandIntegrationTasks could also be solved with
>>common infrastructure.
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>The problem with common infrastructure is that it really slows down innovation 
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Depends. Look how similar KIO and Gnome-VFS are. Having competing VFS 
libraries is like having different motorways for red and for green cars. 
It's inefficient and slows down innovation and competition on a higher 
level: Nobody buys cars because they don't know which color. Reminds me 
of the linux/unix desktop. ;-)

>>cases like "there is no VFS library installed". Because of the
>>late-binding. It's a wild mix of layers, the most abstruse example is
>>probably this out-of process popping up filedialogs.
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>What is the assumed disadvantage of an out-of-process file dialog?
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It's like repainting you car at every crossing... Might be a bit 
limiting. You can't design custom filedialogs or have embedded 
filemanagers like in K3B etc...

Cheers,
Norbert