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The GNOME Virtual File System

The solution we gave to these issues in the GNOME project is in the form of a new library, designed from scratch to meet all the requirements. This library (the GNOME Virtual File System, or GNOME VFS for short) takes advantage of the existing GNOME development libraries, such as GLIB and GTK+ [GTK].

The following design ideas were kept in mind while implementing the GNOME VFS:


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Ettore Perazzoli 2000-04-26