[Thunar-dev] url handlers

[Benedikt Meurer]

Ori Bernstein wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:43:13 -0400
> Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> said:
> 
> 
> 
>>And if there is one thing you simply MUST have in the file manager,
>>that is outside of Thunar's scope, then write a third party plugin.
>>
>>Not that a plugin for the VFS is neccessary for 1.0, just that when it
>>does exist, then we can punt on these requests, and interested
>>developers can do the work without having to push the functionality
>>into the core.
> 
> 
> Instead of a plugin VFS, I'd like to see this sort of thing pushed out to
> fuse or lufs, or some similar projects. That way, it'll be available to all
> applications, and not just Thunar and some Gnome-VFS enabled apps. IMO,
>  
> With user-mounts for ftp and such, and filemanager cooperation, I think it might
> give a much better user experience than a vfs with plugins. 
> 
> Then again, I'm not so familiar with the technologies behind it, so this might
> be a very bad idea. We'll see.

I'd prefer a cross-platform solution like (hopefully) D-VFS or even 
Gnome-VFS. Highly platform dependent solutions aren't very useful in the 
long run.

Benedikt