Re: RE : GSMBrowser.

[Helge Hess]

Peter Cooper wrote:
> > IMO, wouldn't it better to have something like a bundle in order to use
> > GSMBrowser abilities in GWorkspace ? rather than use 2 different
> > applications ?
>
> Actually, it would be nicer to have this functionality available
> throughout the system, which probably means something like a fairly
> standardised way of mapping new mechanisms for file access into GS base.

I agree. KDE does that using a daemon infrastructure called "DCOP", 
maybe ideas can be borrowed from there. AFAIK Gnome provides this 
facility too. For example you can open a remote iCalendar file in 
KOrganizer by entering webdav://myserver/myfile.ics in the KDE open-panel.

Windows also does that starting with W2K (eg WebFolders for accessing 
DAV or FTP folders).
Notably MacOSX goes a different route by providing additional Unix 
filesystems (eg WebDAV).

From a technical point of view either NSFileManager could be extended 
to provide a mounting point for "virtual" volumes or a different 
NSFileManager could be returned (eg hooked up on the scheme of a URL).

(BTW: in SKYRiX we use filemanagers in all kinds of places, eg to access 
a LDAP server using filesystem API, to access IMAP servers, ...)

Greetings
  Helge
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