Re: Questions for users, about vfs support

tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Hi all

I'm seeking feedback about the merits of adding vfs capabilities to emelFM2. My questions for you are:

1. How strongly do you feel about adding this capability to e2 ? Other 
application(s) can be used for the same functionality, and custom applications 
typically have more features.

I, personally, have no need. But, 'if you build it they will come.'
2. How acceptable is it to create a dependency on gnome-vfs ? It seems that the vfs-mechanism being developed within the freedesktop.org community works on top of gnome-vfs (at least). Gnome vfs is being actively developed, its API is well documented (unlike some other candidates), recent versions (IIRC >= 2.15.4) have reduced further dependencies e.g. bonobo is gone.
I need GConf and ORBit2 for devhelp anyway. gnome-vfs-2.15.92 builds with only those libs, + gnome-mime-data. 
3. Linux and one? of the BSD's (etc??) support fuse. Does anyone have any 
experience using fuse for archive and/or remote directory processing? Is it 
worth looking into ?

I've no idea here. 
4. How unpleasant is it to use the current unpack plugin ? That roughly substitutes for 
archive-vfs, the difference being that the archive is actually unpacked and repacked, 
which is slower, and not necessarily possible for all archive-types, but does allow 
comprehensive "manipulation" of archive contents.

The current unpack or list contents do fine for me.

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David Jensen




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