[Portland] xdg_vfs_gnome command line client

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 11:52, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> > > The whole *point* of xdg-utils is that I don't want to know
> > > the inner details of gnome vfs.
> >
> > Agreed.  nf2, would it make sense to merge the two to have a common
> > commandline interface and accept identical input?  i.e. to make them both
> > implement a common "xdg-vfs" command syntax and semantics?  We want to
> > hide the differences between desktops, not accentuate them.
>
> i'd take one step further back even and ask: what are the use cases for
> this?
>
> i'm concerned that we're starting to cross that line between "works just
> fine as a CLI tool since it's a fire-n-forget, usually-at-install-anyways
> type thing anyways" to "used heavily from applications, so really ought to
> be in a library". this tool is cool beans for accessing these things from
> the command line (though we already have similar tools; only diff is they
> don't do stdin/out streaming), but honestly:

  Right.  In fact, I think the common use for this is something that will 
easily be satisfied by wget or curl.

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