From kde-core-devel  Tue Dec 21 23:08:45 2004
From: Aaron Seigo <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:08:45 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KIO->GnomeVFS bridge started (looking for a Common-VFS)
Message-Id: <200412211608.45491.aseigo () kde ! org>
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On December 21, 2004 15:52, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> If you choose one implementation, why not stick with it?

hopefully one would ... however:

> Switch to GNOME, but keep KWallet running. If you are switching
> definitely, export your passwords and import them in the new one.

these are actions that would be completely unnecessary if the file format w=
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defined. these are also fairly non-trivial actions to take for the average=
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user. seeing as this should be completely transparent to the user, i think=
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not defining the storage format would weaken the standard.

what's the benefit to not defining the storage format?

one benefit i can see is allowing for things like network storage in LDAP o=
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what-not ... but if the format defined is for _local file-based_ storage on=
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then that isn't an issue (since an LDAP schema could be added to the spec f=
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LDAP, some SQL DDL for RDBMS storage, etc..)

thinking about it further, this really begs the question of service discove=
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if an application needs the "FD.o wallet" service but no process is providi=
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it, which binary is executed? obviously if file formats aren't compatible o=
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if concurrent access to the file isn't an option, there needs to be a way t=
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say "this is the service to start when the wallet is needed."

 we've solved this in KDE with kded modules to provide on-demand loading of=
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services. is there an FD.o standard that provides for something like that? =
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not, that might be an even better place to start.

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Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric

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