gnome-vfs question

[praetorian529]

Hi!

I've got a question on the gnome-vfs: when I choose "Connect to Server" in Nautilus and enter correct values in the requested fields and click "Connect" then an icon appears on my desktop. As far as I understand this is not a "really mounted" directory; it's a Gnome specific kind of connection.
When I open a program - lets say gedit - and choose "File -> Open" I can open this "mounted" folder and see the files in in and everything is fine. But other software that uses the same "Open File" dialog does not show up this icon (for example Gimp).

emerge -pv gedit gimp shows that non of them has a "gnome-vfs" use flag, so this can't be the difference which would explain the behaviour discibed above.

So my question: Why does this work with one program and not with the other?

Thanks!

[brianahr]

I've done a some development with GnomeVFS - Ill take a shot at it. The open dialogs in GTK are generic - ie both gedit and gimp are GTK applications - so they will use the same dialogs. The difference is a "gnome" application (like gedit) vs a more generic application like gimp. Additionally, if you look at the gedit source code, (for example in gedit-file-selector-util.c) you'll see something like #include <libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs.h>. What this means is, gedit *does* use gnome VFS, but its not currently an optional feature, and thus isnt available as a USE flag. gimp on the other hand, probably doesnt even use gnome-vfs, and so theres no use flag because it doesnt provide this feature at all.