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List: freedesktop-xdg
Subject: Re: continued: Common-VFS proposal
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap () osdl ! org>
Date: 2005-01-23 23:23:37
Message-ID: 41F431F9.3080501 () osdl ! org
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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
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