[Slackbuilds-users] gvfs / WebDAV question

Max Miorim miorimmax at gmail.com
Sat Jul 3 07:32:23 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Max Miorim <miorimmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:43:23 -0300
>> Luis Henrique <lmello.009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/01/2010 01:25 AM, Robby Workman wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:22:33 -0500
>>> > Robby Workman<rworkman at slackbuilds.org>  wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I've looked at gvfs as well, as it's going to be needed sooner
>>> >> or later by xfce (4.8).  To get all of the backends built, you
>>> >> will need the optional deps, unfortunately.  For http support,
>>> >> which iirc includes davfs, you need libsoup-gnome, which is part
>>> >> of the libsoup package IF libsoup is built with libproxy and
>>> >> gnome-keyring installed.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > By the way, if anyone has run across anything that wants udisks
>>> > and/or upower or any of the new stuff for volume and power
>>> > management tasks, I've done some preliminary (that means it's
>>> > pretty much untested with stuff that can use it) work on that:
>>> >
>>> >    http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkman/halectomy/
>>> >
>>> > Feedback is welcome.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info, robby.
>>>
>>> So, is gvfs will be needed by xfce 4.8.x? This either means:
>>> - Thunar will have URI support through gvfs
>>> - Gigolo will be incorporated to the default xfce installation
>>>
>>> That's nice, I guess. ;)
>>
>>
>> Thunar in 4.8.x will have URI support via gvfs.
>> Jannis (Thunar dev) is supposedly having some company sponsor
>> him (sponsor=pay) to port thunar-volman to use glib gio, and
>> once that's done, everything should be in place, I think.
>>
>> -RW
>
> Those are good news, I was under the impression that they did drop it
> (gvfs/gio) because the newer versions tend to use DeviceKit instead of
> HAL for volume management, which would require "some" work on
> thunar-volman. :)
>
> On topic: I believe the folts at slacky.eu have packages for both
> gigolo and gvfs, I'd look at their SlackBuilds and slack-required,
> maybe they have had this issue already and found a way to fix it.
>
> -- Max
>

s/folts/folks/g, not sure how the k was read as a t but my handwriting
is rather, well.. that's why i type things instead. :)


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