[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] VFS and gnome-vfs, the unequal brothers

[From: Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

So I'm feeling restless again...

I might be biased because I don't really do GNOME application stuff, but...

My complaint really boils down to namespace unification. It
saddens me to see that when one uses gnome-vfs API one sees files with
*different names* than when one uses UNIX VFS, and one sees _more_ files
using gnome-vfs than using UNIX VFS (because the Flash is accessed using a
gnome-vfs module instead of a FUSE module?).

Probably I'm so rooted in UNIX traditional filesystem access (you know,
mountpoints, uniform resource access, uniform naming, ...), but I just
don't see what advantages that kind of confusion has.

Of course we are talking pie-in-the-sky here and
I could very well just nag GNOME with it, I guess :)

cheers,
  Danny