Common VFS: GKIO experiment

Benjamin Meyer ben at meyerhome.net
Wed Dec 8 19:04:37 EET 2004


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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 7:12 pm, nf wrote:
> Hi lists! (xdg, gnome-vfs, kde-core)
>
> In order to find a way out of this situation, i would like to start an
> experiment: To write a (KDE/C++) wrapper to Gnome-VFS which looks and
> acts like the KIO-API - "GKIO". Then write a number of test-cases, which
> test the GKIO-API for KIO requirements and compatibility. Once this
> tests work, i want to try plugging GKIO into kde-core libs (instead of
> original KIO code).

It seems that you know Gnome's VFS system a lot better then KIO, have you 
tried wrapping VFS around KIO?  Sense (most?) kio slaves don't use the event 
loop at all it might be a lot easier and you might be able to get something 
working substantialy faster.

- -Benjamin Meyer

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