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Bug 400850 - Should use URIs instead of local paths
Should use URIs instead of local paths
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glade
Classification: Applications
Component: general
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Glade 3 Maintainers
Glade 3 Maintainers
: 584979 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-26 00:40 UTC by Vincent Geddes
Modified: 2018-03-26 15:01 UTC
See Also:
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Description Vincent Geddes 2007-01-26 00:40:08 UTC 
In this age of the Internet and the Networked Computer we still use local file
paths to reference projects. This is rather limiting, if one considers that almost
all users have access to a network or the internet these days.

Now, of course we don't yet have the code to load and save files over a network, but using URIs now would ease the architectural changes that would come later.
Comment 1 Vincent Geddes 2007-01-26 00:45:14 UTC 
Note, this internet-aware design is meant to be used in conjunction with GtkFileChooser, which has support for browsing networks.
Comment 2 Tristan Van Berkom 2007-01-26 16:19:57 UTC 
I'm not sure what is the state of the union wrt remote files
in gnome, I think this needs dbus or something.

I think we can agree that we'll only support remote URI filenames
through a generic gtk+/glib api.
Comment 3 Vincent Geddes 2007-01-27 15:08:06 UTC 
Right now, remote file handling would require gnome-vfs [1].

Nobody seems to like gnome-vfs very much though, and there is talk of moving it into glib [2]. So yes, I agree, it would be best to wait until glib has support for file system abstraction.

References:

1. http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gnome-vfs-2.0/
2. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2006-September/msg00023.html
Comment 4 Tristan Van Berkom 2011-01-29 15:27:16 UTC 
We are much closer to implementing this now.

Today I made Glade use GtkApplication and its now a single instance
app, loading files come in the form of a GFile which can be
a remote URI.

However some modifications need to be made to GladeProject in order
to support editing a file that has no local canonical path name.
(I suppose loading a remote file from URI can be done, then we 
want to maintain the file's short name and have it in read-only
mode, then we can support save-as to save the modified file locally
somewhere).
Comment 5 Tristan Van Berkom 2016-04-06 12:16:11 UTC 
*** Bug 584979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-03-26 15:01:38 UTC 
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