Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:08:58 -0500 | From | David Masover <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins |
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David Weinehall wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:58:20PM +0300, Markus Törnqvist wrote: > >>On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:50:27AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote: >> >>>I'll just note that the "applications bundled as directories" stuff on >>>MacOS/NextStep is done completely in userspace--as far as the kernel >>>is concerned, "Mail.app" is a regular directory. The file manager >>>handles recognition and invocation of application bundles (and there >>>is an 'open' shell command that does the same thing). >> >>Note that MacOS has the monopoly on what they ship, Linux has a >>motherload of file managers and window systems and all. >> >>What pisses me off is the fact that Gnome and friends implement >>their own incompatible-with-others VFS's and automounters and >>stuff. >> >>Surely supporting this in the kernel and extending the LSB >>to require this is the best step to take without infringing >>anyone's freedom as such. >> >>*still pissed off about having to hassle an automatic mount* > > > GNOME and KDE run on operating systems that run other kernels than > Linux, hence they have to implement their own userland VFS anyway. > Adding this to the Linux kernel won't help them one bit, unless > we can magically convince Sun to add it to Solaris, all different > BSD:s to add it to their kernels, etc. Not going to happen. > An effort to get GNOME and KDE to unify their VFS:s would be > far more benificial,
Than what? Creating a unified VFS which I can access from Bash, and which obsoletes both GNOME and KDE's VFSes except in their presentation?
> FreeDesktop is doing a lot of work to make GNOME, KDE, and other > DE:s interoperate as much as possible. Support their initiative > instead of trying to get a monstrosity (albeit a very cool one, > conceptually) into the kernel. Sure, it could be made to work, > but not without dropping our Unixness.
(I'm talking about the metafs (/meta) idea, which isn't nearly as much a monstrocity, and doesn't kill our unixness, it enhances it.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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