Hi, > > > > I was talking with Paolo about this and we were a bit concerned about > > the above paragraph... How it would work for the case where I simply > > want to drag an URI from firefox to gedit to open the file[1]? > > We could have an api that lets you map a URI into a vfs object with a > more complicated API that lets the application have a dialog with the > user requesting things like authentication and prefered filename > encoding for the share (essentially a mount operation based on a uri). > We would need to use something like that anyway in the file selector, > because it would need to be able to mount things as you input locations.
It is not clear to me what do you mean with "mount operation based on a uri". Which is the semantic of such operation? Suppose you want to open a single file on a web server. Is the mounting operation the creation of a HTTP session with the web server? Or what? Thanks, Paolo _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list