News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux. Parent comment

Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by bandrami on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:48PM (#12856758)
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).

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux by Mister_Snuggles on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:07PM (#12858757)
I 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.

[ Parent | on HN ]