Bug#822912: Please disable Gnome-VFS support

[Michael Biebl]

Source: inkscape
Version: 0.91-8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

Gnome-VFS is is no longer maintained upstream and not really used
anymore in a modern GNOME(-based) desktop

Please consider disabling Gnome-VFS support.

I made a test-build with Gnome-VFS disabled and didn't notice any
functionality regression.

I'm running GNOME 3.20, where gvfs, the successor is installed.
In the file picker I could open files from remote mounts without
problems.

So to me it seems like it should be safe to disable Gnome-VFS (and
eventually depend on gvfs instead).

I have to add that inkscape is the last application on my desktop which
pulls in libgnome-vfs and its dependencies.
It would be nice to get rid of them.

Regards,
Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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