[Mono-list] Simple code - differences in output between mono & .Net

[Todd Berman]

[Lots of cruft snipped]
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 13:43, Ben Maurer wrote:

> I am also not sure what context someone would use this API in. The only reason I can think of for using it is some sort of file browser. However, this is an application i would generally think of as platform bound anyways. It would be a bit easier to comment about the correct behavior with a use case. I am not sure what a file browser shoudl display. On the one hand, having a single root, /, is pretty correct (nautilus does it), however, a root for each drive would be more user friendly. One problem is that on Windows, the drive logical name and the physical drive are very much associated, you say "open up the C drive" or "copy that to the A drive". So, in Windows, it is user friendly to display "D:\" as the name of the cdrom. However, a user would *not* say "open up /mnt/cdrom" I think showing /mnt/cdrom as a root would actually be wrong.

Using this api to build a crossplatform filebrowser is not only
possible, its extremely easy, and i have done it before and tested it
successfully under .net and mono.

You just drop as a root node in a treestore each path returned from the
GetLogicalDrives and use that.

--Todd