[Thunar-dev] vfs & samba (was: whish list)

[Jaap Karssenberg]

On Thu, June 30, 2005 11:29, Benedikt Meurer said:
> The application "tells" the file manager whether it can accept URIs (see 
> the desktop entry spec for details). If the application supports only 
> local paths, the file manager automatically downloads the file to a 
> temporary location and fires the application on the temporary file.

Resulting in a temporary file of 1 or 2Gb for a movie on a samba share? No thanks.

May I request that this action for applications that do not support vfs is configurable for power users ? Make it an external binary that is executed with the vfs path as argument and that returns a local path on stdout. Make the path to this binary a hidden preference. This way a power user (or the administrator of a public workstation) can put a script there to for example translate smb:// uris to an autofs directory. Also if the Fuse api for D-vfs gets done, such a script can be used to let non-vfs-aware applications use vfs transparently. This would seem a very clean option to me, giving power to the user but hiding the ugly details under the hood.

cheers !

-- Pardus