Hi, As you might have seen already, im experimenting with a generic frontend API for KIO and Gnome-VFS for 3rd party applications. (http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/dadapt/files/xdg_utils/doc/libxdg-vfs.html)
The interface should be rich enough to run file-choosers on top of it. The basic idea is, that the interface provides a "root" URI (computer:// on Gnome-VFS and system:/ on KIO) and every directory listing is a list of full URIs (which can point to files, folders, network shares, drives...) Browsing around drives and network shares seems to work quite well, but there is a little problem with mounting drives and Gnome-VFS. In KIO it's quite easy, because it maps everything into the "system:/" pseudo-protocol with a "auto-mounting" behavior. For instance my cdrom is mapped as "system:/media/hdd". Opening this URI, or an URI below that (like system:/media/hdd/directory/file) will automatically mount the cdrom, because KIO seems to know that system:/media/ contains drives. On Gnome-VFS i can walk through the desktop-entries listed by computer://, (there is an option in my xdg_vfs_gnome backend to automatically dive into desktop entries). It already works for mounted drives, but for drives which are not mounted, the URL points to "(null)": xdg_vfs_gnome get computer:///CD-RW%252FDVD%25C2%25B1R%2520Drive.drive [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=CD-RW/DVD±R Drive Type=FSDevice Icon=gnome-dev-removable URL=(null) I guess there is a way to look up the appropriate drive and call gnome_vfs_drive_mount (), but i don't know how... Will the name returned by gnome_vfs_drive_get_display_name () exactly match the "Name" attribute of the desktop entry? regards, Norbert _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
