> > That would seem like it could save a lot of work/code duplication
> > -- and would potentially give you the back-end support for the
> > various fs types that evfs already supports.. and also provide
> > back-end support for things like the "trash can" - something that
> > e17 will eventually want.
>
> understood - but it wont save anything :)
It won't save you from having to write all the file-system
back-end stuff needed for these kinds of things? Ummmm... that's
somewhat odd.
> > You could even define new .desktop file types, namely types
> > like say "vfs:some-protocol", which would provide a url as a
> > target. Clicking on such an icon would then use evfs to read that
> > target and the associated e17 module-plugin would display/handle
> > it accordingly.
> >
> > This would effectively give the desktop-shell (e17) much the
> > same capability as certain file-managers, except that the primary
> > interfacing is done initially via desktop icons.
>
> eventually- evfs is targetted for e18 :)
Ahhh... well, that's a different story altogether. :)
jose.
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