On Sunday 13 May 2012 11:32:46 Casper Clemence wrote: > * it mounts lots more than an ordinary VFS - including XML documents (so > the tree of the document can be browsed), databases, X (so that window > position and size for example can be read and modified as if they were data > in the filesystem), web browser bookmarks... > .. all of which leads to the "uniform method of access" I mentioned where > all sorts of document data, document structure and metadata becomes > available in a a uniform way.
All this sounds synchronous (the data is always available right away). So it probably makes sense as a kioslave (so that all applications can access all of the above via KIO API), not as a replacement for KIO (which has to provide an asynchronous way of accessing network protocols). -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5
