[plug] IOSlaves konquer all

[John Knight]

Your wish may not be too far off, GNOME and KDE developers are starting to 
cooperate with each other, with KDE including GNOME menu entries etc. It 
can't be too far until unified menuing sytems etc. get the go ahead. :-)

Make lunch, not war.

>
>It'd be nicer again if the GnomeVFS and KIOSlave frameworks played well 
>together, avoiding the need to code to one or another, and reducing wasted 
>dupilcate effort. What about a VirtualIO backend with KIOSlave and GnomeVFS 
>API layers so that both can share the same capabilities? Don't know if it'd 
>be practical, but it'd be awfully nice. Especially if the base IO 
>virtualisation layer could be independent of the GNOME and KDE libraries, 
>so it could be used for general applications on Linux or even other UNIXes.
>
>Just imagine - every app having the /same/ view of the available 
>filesystem(s), real and virtual.
>
>Next thing we'd be having consistant file load and save dialog boxes! (if 
>only...)
>
>Craig
>
>

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