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<refentry id="libgnomevfs-2-3">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">14 May 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man3;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>

GNOME Virtual File System</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="libgnomevfs-2-3-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose>

GNOME Virtual File System</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

GnomeVFS is obsolete. It has been superseded by libgio-2.0. See

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgio-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

</para>

<para>GnomeVFS is a filesystem abstraction library which gives applications

plugable transparent access to a variety of "real" filesystems, from WebDAV

to digital cameras, to the local filesystem. It also contains a number of

other convenient file utilities such as a comprehensive MIME database / Application

registry, and a copy engine. Use of GnomeVFS also ensures that an application

or component will be usable by Nautilus or other GnomeVFS applications for

handling the display of data from various URIs.</para>

<para>Besides providing transparent access to data methods that you might

otherwise have to implement, GnomeVFS provides a number of convenient libraries

for processing URIs, detecting the MIME type of files, and identifying which

applications or components to launch to view a file or what icon to use. Writing

a GnomeVFS module may also be an appropriate solution to some data access

problems as it allows the developer to implement a relatively small number

of functions to gain general filesystem semantics.</para>

<para>To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version

of the package.</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>The following files are used by this application:</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/lib/&cmd;.so</filename> </term><listitem>

<para>GNOME Virtual File System shared library</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gnome-vfs-2.0</filename> </term><listitem>

<para>Location of developer documentation</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry>

<refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center"

valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>library/gnome/gnome-vfs</para></entry>

</row>

<row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry

colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Obsolete Volatile</para></entry></row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-cat</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-copy</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-info</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-ls</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnomevfs-mkdir</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>nautilus</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>libgio-2.0</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs-mime-magic</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs.applications</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs.keys</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-vfs.mime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-interfaces</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="libgnomevfs-2-3-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008.</para>

</refsect1>

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