[Portland] xdg-vfs

[nf2]

Hi,

Now that i have almost finished the xdg-vfs backends for KIO and 
Gnome-VFS (they support the major operations necessary for 
file-management: get, put, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir, info, setattrs, ls, 
openfildlg, savefildlg), there are some open questions:

1) URI-escaping: Should URIs be passed/printed in escaped (%xx) form or 
not? (at the moment i think: no). Can someone please help me how to use 
KURL / GnomeVFSURI for the particular case of a cli app dealing with URIs?

What's the desired behavior of:

$ xdg-vfs mkdir hello%20world

Is the newline-character a safe way for seperating URIs in the output?

And what about encodings?

2) Do you think i should link xdg-vfs in 
http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/TaskVFS? I know that xdg-vfs is not 
a pretty solution, but at least it's a starting point for a generic vfs 
interface. I agree with Aaron J. Seigo that a library interface would be 
better, but there is the problem with the event-loops.

3) Where to park the source-code of xdg-vfs?

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)

regards,
Norbert

nf2 wrote:
> html doc:
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> http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/doc/xdg-vfs.html 
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> docbook xml:
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> http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/doc/xdg-vfs.xml
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> new packages of the backend executables:
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> http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/
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> norbert
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