gnome-vfs and file-selectors

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:03 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > It requires porting the programs to use gnome-vfs instead of e.g.
> > fopen()/fclose() for all file IO which is not a trivial undertaking.
> 
> Couldnt someone write a shared lib wrapper to do this.

The problem here is that to support some of the protocols supported by
gnome-vfs well you'll need a different API (an asynchronous one) plus
needs for dialogs for authentication etc.. Check the archives at
xdg-list at freedesktop.org for some discussion of the d-vfs effort and
you'll see why stuff like this is needed

Cheers,
David