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why does it talk about FileSystem Layout. Is GNUStep an OS ? I thought it was just a library. Pretty much the first thing a desktop environment has to do is es
by bandrami 10y ago
why does it talk about FileSystem Layout. Is GNUStep an OS ? I thought it was just a library.
Pretty much the first thing a desktop environment has to do is establish an abstraction layer for filesystems, so that desktop-enabled applications can have a consistent way to talk about files. Both Gnome and KDE have a VFS layer (GVFS and KIO, respectively).
- Mister_Snuggles 10y agoI really wish they wouldn't. A good portion of what KIO and GVFS do should be done at a lower level. Instead we get this weird situation where I can "see" a file in KWrite, but I can't see it the shell or in a non-KIO-enabled program.