[Thunar-dev] Spatial or not-spatial?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>> If you are only talking about the very basic file operations, then 
>>> I'd like to disagree as well here. I don't think the world needs 
>>> another desktop vfs library. If this is really necessary, then we 
>>> should use gnome-vfs or wait for the fdo people to come up with 
>>> something.
>>
>> Maybe it's time for xfce developpers to share their ideas with fd.o ? I
>> dont know if it's easy and not too much time consuming, but maybe they
>> could be interested...
> 
> If you read the xdg list, you see this topic popping up every now and 
> then. But there's not much progress in the discussion at any time. The 
> best point was made by Havoc recently, who said that a VFS library 
> shouldn't reimplement the POSIX API, but instead, implement a higher 
> level API. Think in terms of 'read the contents of document A' instead 
> of 'open document A', 'seek to position 50', 'read 10 bytes', ...

BTW,

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-March/005957.html

the 4th attempt to get to that topic IIRC. Tho, this looks more promising.

Benedikt