You must be joking

Posted Nov 7, 2010 5:14 UTC (Sun) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: You must be joking by quotemstr
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

> If you instead put the type information in the metadata, you basically have the system we have today *plus* the complexity of having to manage this temporary file and copy it across machines. Preemptively? On demand? Over what transport? Do transfers block the GUI?

If copying non-text data you just have to use a URL to reference the resource.
http://blah/
file://blah/
sftp://blah/

Etc.

Then you let the application figure it out. If it does not know how to handle the file then it can display a error or just paste the text link or something.

This is were things like GVFS come in handy. Apps that support GVFS it's easy to do this... you just let GVFS handle the details about the connection to the service and then have the program figure out what to do with the file.

For non-gvfs programs you can theoretically just pass the URL through /home/blah/.gvfs/etc/etc/ and expose GVFS through FUSE.

You must be joking

Posted Nov 7, 2010 13:07 UTC (Sun) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Last I checked you can copy and past multiple files at once.