[Gtk-sharp-list] GnomeVFS

Moritz Balz verteiler@mbalz.de
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:05:53 +0200


I'm mainly interested in things like
- Meta data (icons)
- MIME type data
- Accessing other file systems (e.g., smb://)
which have all no .NET equivalents (as far as I know).

Moritz


Rachel Hestilow wrote:

>Was there a particular bit of gnome-vfs you were needing?
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>I ask this because I think application authors would (or should) rather
>use the built-in .NET classes for this. If there are URI
>incompatibilities between Gnome widgets (file selector) and the .NET URI
>facilities, we should provide some sort of compatibility mapping. We
>might want to provide some sort of .NET-ish way of accessing the
>"custom" directories in gnome-vfs such as the vfolder ones. But I can't
>imagine ever writing a straight binding for gnome-vfs, custom solutions
>using the .NET interfaces is really the way to go here.
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>-- Rachel
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>On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 14:54, Moritz Balz wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>are there plans if and when GnomeVFS will be supported by Gnome#?
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>>Thanks
>>Moritz
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