continued: Common-VFS proposal

[Randy.Dunlap]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I proposed the following a while back:
>>
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2003-September/002456.html
>>
>> I think it's more feasible than any sort of "one true API" approach.
>>
> 
> I would think it would be cool to dump the not so nice api that is 
> gnome-vfs for Gnome 3 and replace it with a nicer, simpler Dbus version 
> (ditto for KDE 4?).
> 
> IMHO, there isnt really a good excuse for using propriety desktop 
> specific modules any longer unless they need to be stricly tied to a 
> platform's widget toolkit or constitute a unique feature of the platform 
> in question.

Amen.  I don't know common-VFS or widgets, but the backend and
middleware pieces need to be common as much as possible IMO.

-- 
~Randy