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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KIO->GnomeVFS bridge started (looking for a Common-VFS)
From:       nf <nf2 () scheinwelt ! at>
Date:       2004-12-20 16:14:11
Message-ID: 1103559250.1557.360.camel () limac
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Hi!

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 13:37, Jason Keirstead wrote:

> I would think that it should try to find a KIO slave first, and fall back on 
> GVFS if absent. In a similar vein, if such a bridge were also written to use 
> KIO slaves in Gnome, I would expect they would prefer the GVFS slaves and 
> fall back on ours.

The GVFS slaves should have priority. Because then KDE & Gnome apps can
use the same VFS library.
> 
> Why would anyone would want a KDE application to prefer a GVFS slave over a 
> KIO one? No matter how good the bridge it would still not be as efficient as 
> a native KIO one.

I have written a little document to explain the benefits of a Common-VFS
library.

http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/common-vfs/COMMON-VFS-BENEFITS.html

cheers,
Norbert

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