Hi ...
I have been using Geany a bit the last few days, and its becoming a quite useful tool. But I can't open files that is mounted in VFS :-(
Are there any plans of vfs support, or am I the only one having this need ?
/BL
Bo Lorentsen wrote:
Hi ...
I have been using Geany a bit the last few days, and its becoming a quite useful tool. But I can't open files that is mounted in VFS :-(
Are there any plans of vfs support, or am I the only one having this need ?
Not quite sure what you mean by vfs. Usually the expression vfs is used to describe the linux vfs layer, which is quite hard not to support...
If you mean gnome-vfs, I hope it will never be supported. To me, it just not right to put such an abstraction layer into every user program wanting to open a file. Fuse is a much saner approach, lets you mount via webdav, ssh, ftp or even obex and is completely transparent to the application.
Since fuse is standard in the kernel, I can't see a point in all this gnome-vfs or kioslave crap anymore.
Bye Tim
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Tim Tassonis wrote:
Not quite sure what you mean by vfs. Usually the expression vfs is used to describe the linux vfs layer, which is quite hard not to support...
I was thinking about the GnomeVFS !
Since fuse is standard in the kernel, I can't see a point in all this gnome-vfs or kioslave crap anymore.
Ok, I think I agree, we only need more fuse integration in the desktop.
/BL
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:40:12 +0100, Bo Lorentsen bl@lue.dk wrote:
Hi ...
I have been using Geany a bit the last few days, and its becoming a quite useful tool. But I can't open files that is mounted in VFS :-(
Are there any plans of vfs support, or am I the only one having this need ?
I guess you are talking about gnome-vfs? If so, it won't be supported. As Tim mentioned, fuse is very powerful and provides (IMO) a cleaner way to use remote file systems while being completely application independent.
This has been requested already some time before but I think it is much better and easier to use fuse or lufs for accessing remote file systems. Theoretically supporting gnome-vfs could be reached with a plugin. The plugin does the work with gnome-vfs and when opening a file via gnome-vfs it reads its contents and create a new file in Geany and put the contents in it. When saving this file, the plugin gives it a temporary filename on the local system(so that Geany can actually save it) and just put the contents of the saved file back to gnome-vfs, so the plugin would act as a kind of wrapper or layer between Geany and gnome-vfs. I will definitely not work on this and it is probably a lot of work. Again, using lufs or fuse should be much easier.
Regards, Enrico
On Nov 13, 2007 12:21 PM, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:40:12 +0100, Bo Lorentsen bl@lue.dk wrote:
Hi ...
I have been using Geany a bit the last few days, and its becoming a quite useful tool. But I can't open files that is mounted in VFS :-(
Are there any plans of vfs support, or am I the only one having this need ?
I guess you are talking about gnome-vfs? If so, it won't be supported. As Tim mentioned, fuse is very powerful and provides (IMO) a cleaner way to use remote file systems while being completely application independent.
Hello, Enrico. Just thought you might want to take a look at Alexander Larsson's GIO/GVFS stuff.
He proposes an architecture that seems to unite the power of Fuse with the integration provided by Gnome-VFS. Perhaps it would be worth to take a look at it when it is finally done (although I'm not quite sure when this is going to be.)
Regards, Alexandre Moreira.
This has been requested already some time before but I think it is much better and easier to use fuse or lufs for accessing remote file systems. Theoretically supporting gnome-vfs could be reached with a plugin. The plugin does the work with gnome-vfs and when opening a file via gnome-vfs it reads its contents and create a new file in Geany and put the contents in it. When saving this file, the plugin gives it a temporary filename on the local system(so that Geany can actually save it) and just put the contents of the saved file back to gnome-vfs, so the plugin would act as a kind of wrapper or layer between Geany and gnome-vfs. I will definitely not work on this and it is probably a lot of work. Again, using lufs or fuse should be much easier.
Regards, Enrico
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:07:15 -0200, "Alexandre Moreira" alexandream@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007 12:21 PM, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:40:12 +0100, Bo Lorentsen bl@lue.dk wrote:
Hi ...
I have been using Geany a bit the last few days, and its becoming a quite useful tool. But I can't open files that is mounted in VFS :-(
Are there any plans of vfs support, or am I the only one having this need ?
I guess you are talking about gnome-vfs? If so, it won't be supported. As Tim mentioned, fuse is very powerful and provides (IMO) a cleaner way to use remote file systems while being completely application independent.
Hello, Enrico. Just thought you might want to take a look at Alexander Larsson's GIO/GVFS stuff.
He proposes an architecture that seems to unite the power of Fuse with the integration provided by Gnome-VFS. Perhaps it would be worth to take a look at it when it is finally done (although I'm not quite sure when this is going to be.)
Maybe. But for now it would be just another dependency, it's the new gnome-vfs without gnome in the name ;-). It will become interesting when they integrate it into GLib/GTK but as they noted at [1] this won't happen soon. Even if, there is still the problem many users won't use the bleeding edge versions of GLib/GTK. And I really don't want to add an additional dependency for such a library as long as fuse and lufs exist.
Anyway, thanks for the pointer.
[1] http://live.gnome.org/GioToDo
Regards, Enrico