Jon A. Cruz wrote:
Probably the first question that needs to be answered is what exactly switching to GIO will bring as a benefit.
- Transparent support for remote filesystems in Gnome - Ability to automatically determine the mimetype of the opened file using the MIME database on Unix and registry settings on Windows (http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/stable/gio-GContentType.html) - The ability to remove several hacks from the clipboard code - currently to copy SVG data we write it to a temporary file and then read it back (!) - enabled by the GIO streams API - Reading / writing files to / from standard output - Sane filename conventions = better maintainability - Slightly smaller memory footprint - Removal of lots of cruft
I think that's sufficient to consider the migration.
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński