So, another long time complaint has come to my mind, which I wanted to let you all know about. Just in case you find yourself in teh position to design a system to handle it.
While browsing from a web browser, many times, I want to click on a link and have that link open in an external application. I don't usually want to know that this is happening, I want it to happen automatically. WebDAV is the perfect example. When opening a link from a browser, I'd like the browser to open the link in the associated application, like, oh, Abiword. Abiword would be passed a url, open the file using web dav, and then when I save, attempt to save to the same url using web dav. Right now this doesn't work right on our platform in most circumstances, but does work right in some cases on Windows. First off, the browser needs to have the ability to open the application with a Url. We can do that now. Second, the application needs to be able to download the file using the same set of cookies the browser was using. We can't do that now. So, as you design a new VFS, please keep this in mind. It would be nice to have a way to solve the technical problem of the browser passing the cookies to the application. Or as another possibility, having the browser and the application share the same connection using GVFS, and thereby, the same cookies. _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
