Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You...
by cld8483 on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:09PM
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> I would love if Gnome would allow pluggable views in Files
This is essentially what Gvfs is for except basically nobody uses it, at least in the ways you describe, because forcing non-FS things into the shape of a FS usually doesn't work very well. So instead Gvfs gets used for relatively simple things that naturally map onto the FS concept well, like mounting archive files, browsing FTP, etc.
Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You...
by rbanffy on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:16AM
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Gvfs would allow a folder of messages to show the continents of, say, an IMAP server as a set of files, but what I would like is the reverse - to have a different presentation for a folder full of emails.
Re:Microsoft Is Forcibly Removing Internet Explorer from You...
by jamesfinlayson on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:28AM
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Yes sounds right - I remember in the deep dark past somehow getting Steam to show the contents of C:\Program Files\ in the Store window. This was obviously back when Steam was Windows only and before it used embedded Chrome.
It was actually a great feature (memory may be failing at this point), and it seemed like the filesystem viewer was IE presenting a filesystem view. If you typed an http or https URL, the window would turn into an HTML renderer window. This made it possible to build their mail and newsgroup reader apps as filesystem views. Mail was nothing but a folder full of email message files. News was, surprise, a folder full of newsgroups. Those viewers were responsible with synchronizing the folder with remote services.
I would love if Gnome would allow pluggable views in Files: a mail reader for maildir folders, a music player for folders full of audio files, and so on.