On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Bob Jamison wrote:
Anyway, with WebDAV set up, you can use the repository using a file manager like File Explorer (on Windows), or mounted as a file system (on Linux). Some applications such as Illustrator, understand WebDAV directly, and I understand they can load-from and save-to the remote repository directly. One could imagine that having an active WebDAV repository would be ample motivation to get similar support built into Inkscape... ;-)
Wow, that subject line is getting large. My subject line is bigger than your subject line (sorry).
Anyway, the WebDAV support would be something that we'd get for free if we supported GNOME-VFS. I'd like to do that sometime, is there any issues with using GNOME-VFS on Windows or Mac OS X? It would be nicer if we could go to GNOME-VFS exclusively.
Sounds good, but there is a danger. Once you get deeply into the Gnome world, you start adding dependencies quickly. Quickly it will become compilable only on Gnome.
That is reason to have Gnome build as well as a plain GTK build.
Havoc Pennington has made it known that he would very much like to see a standardised VFS that both KDE and Gnome could share but I dont know how far that idea has progressed.
If you are considering replacing file.c you might go a bit further and use libgsf and let it do the hard work. http://freshmeat.net/projects/libgsf/
Using libgsf it would get you the svgz support for free and gnome-vfs would be entirely optional (you'd also get copy/paste "for free" as well as BonoboStream support "for free", and Win32 IStream support "for free"). [1]
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
[1] Thanks to Dom Lachowicz for the clarification and useful information about libgsf.