thunar support for sftp and samba

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Alexander Toresson wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2007 7:02 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thunar isn't a network browser; it's a file browser.  Writing a generic
>> network-transparent file system layer isn't easy.  Come up with a clean
>> way of doing it, and it just might be integrated.
> 
> I got an idea that could be workable, but it requires quite some
> cooperation with fuse (and features added to fuse). A way it could be
> implemented could be that fuse modules simply registered url
> 'handlers' for a partial url, that is, 'handlers' that are
> directories. So then for example urls beginning with samba:// could be
> sent to fuse in some way, that would then preprocess it in some way,
> and send it back.
> With fusesmb having mounted a directory it could have registered that
> the mount point would be the 'handling' directory for urls beginning
> with samba://, so fuse would for example return
> /mnt/fuse/path/that/was/requested. Just an idea that turned up in my
> head right now, not well thought through or so, but what do you think?

Google around for 'libfusi'.  I think the idea with that is to do 
something similar.  Interested parties should get involved ^_^.

	-brian