[OGo-Users] Linxu davfs and the open locally button

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi Helge,

> 
> A filesystem is backend infrastructure, not a tool. The presentation  
> to the user is done by a tool like 'ls' though even in this case  
> displayname would always be the wrong thing (since 'ls' is also used  
> as infrastructure, that is, the ls output is used as input for other  
> tools like 'cat' which obviously need to have the unique identifier  
> of the file, not the display name).
> 
> Well, and even if the user gets the displayname, how is he supposed  
> to continue in the file hierarchy if he doesn't know the name of the  
> file?
> 
> 
> The displayname is never part of the URL! (and I definitely won't add  
> such nonsense). Its just a WebDAV property for displaying a URL to  
> the user.
> 
thanks a lot for the explanations, this makes it a lot clearer to me. I 
thought about that, and came more or less to the same conclusion, but just 
wanted to ask to make sure.

kind regards
Sebastian