[Gpephone-devel] File browsing and manipulating component inG(PE)^2projects

[YE NAN RD-ILAB-PEK]

Hi Folorian,

> There is one reason why it would make sense to use GnomeVFS: 
> If you want to limit the users view on the filesystem this can be 
> done in a very flexible way by using a specialized GnomeVFS module.

Yes, definitely. We need two components in our platform basing on
GnomeVFS:
1) File Manager, full-featured and independent application which
provides almost all the functionalities (Copy, Paste, Delete, Transport,
Launch, etc) just like the one running on desktop.
2) File Browsing Widget, a simple browsing component which provides only
browsing functionalites and can be embedded anywhere in other
application which would like to browse file on the devices. The single
functionaility of this widget is to provide a list including all the
files that user selected and also the File Manager could use this File
Browsing Widget to contruct its own broswing view.

This gives users a unified graphic interface whatever they only want to
browsing files or need any other complicated functions.

Best regards,
Nan YE