On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:03 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey Alex, > > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:35 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > After some time away from GVfs I'm now back working on it. In order to > > get people to start looking at it I'm sending this status report. I'll > > also try to send more regular status reports in the future. > <snip> > > If we want to use gvfs in Gnome 2.21 there are two possibilities: > > 1) Release next glib before the next Gtk+ release > > 2) Temporary ship gio in a separate module, which we later move to glib > > (pkg-config should magically make this work for users as long as the > > packages etc conflict properly) > > > > Both of these have the disadvantage that we can't use gio in > > Gtk+. There are a bunch of UI helper dialogs etc that would be nice to > > have there, but they are not critical. > > The latter woul mean some GNOME applications losing authentication > support in the migration if they don't implement that portion of the > code themselves.
Authentication is a bit different in gvfs vs gnome-vfs, but yes, that is one of the helper things that would be nice to have in Gtk+. It could be handled in a libeel kind of way though. > Would it be completely out of the question to have a GTK+ release for > the sake of gio/gvfs? I don't really have a say here... _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list