From openbsd-ports  Thu Jun 12 22:35:25 2025
From: Brian Callahan <bcallah () posteo ! net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:35:25 +0000
To: openbsd-ports
Subject: Re: UPDATE: x11/xfe 1.46.2 =?UTF-8?Q?=3D=3E=20=32=2E=31=2E=31?=
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> From openbsd-ports  Thu Jun 12 22:35:25 2025
> From: Brian Callahan <bcallah () posteo ! net>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:35:25 +0000
> To: openbsd-ports
> Subject: Re: UPDATE: x11/xfe 1.46.2 =?UTF-8?Q?=3D=3E=20=32=2E=31=2E=31?=
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On 06/11/2025 01:37 PM, Alice wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:23:17 +0000
> Brian Callahan <bcallah@posteo.net> wrote:
> 
>> Which feature is this? I didn't make any changes to the configure
>> flags.
>> 
>> ~Brian
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In the patch notes for version 2.1 it states that "Xfe can now connect
>> to Windows share devices and SSH servers" which is accessible through
>> the tools bar or the shortcut shift-F5. The option in tools is missing
>> and the shift-F5 command doesn't do anything.
> > 
>> In the features section it's stated that this feature is "Linux Only"
>> but this should work using the OpenBSD port of gvfs.
>> 
>> Thanks

> I see. Is it possible that this feature just works if you install Xfe 
> and then install gvfs? Or does gvfs need to be available at xfe build 
> time?

> I ask because gvfs has lots of dependencies: 
> https://openbsd.app/tree?name=x11/gnome/gvfs
> Whereas xfe is pretty light on dependencies: 
> https://openbsd.app/tree?name=x11/xfe

> I would worry that forcing gvfs at build time would end up removing xfe 
> from the available packages for smaller archs.

> Or maybe it doesn't matter much anymore? What do others think?

> Thanks.

> ~Brian

I did some experimentation with XFE and gvfs/gio. It is indeed possible to restore the 'connect to server' feature by pulling the relevant lines out of '#if defined(linux)' blocks in Preferences.cpp, XFileExplorer.cpp and correcting the 'gvfs path' to /tmp/runtime-<username> (which has to be set as XDG_RUNTIME_DIR) in ConnectDialog.cpp. XFE just uses 'gio mount' (from glib2) to connect, and moans if it is not found. It's not linked to in the build.

I was able to connect to an SSH server over sftp and list the files using gio. I haven't a Samba share to test with. But that is as far as it goes: OpenBSD has gvfs-fuse disabled in the gvfs package, so there is no local mount point with which to browse the files in XFE, which would usually be /tmp/runtime-<username>/gvfs/<connectionname> 
However, there is always sshfs-fuse available to mount remote sftp shares.

Incidentally other 'file managers' like pcmanfm (recently retired) and pcmanfm-qt can see the mounted share, I guess because they contain code that is able to speak gio over the socket that appears in /tmp/runtime-userxxx/gvfsd-sftp and make up an internal 'mount point'.

Regarding Archive functionality, there is a new bundled utility 'xfa' with basic archive-listing and extract capability of many common formats. This might be useful on resource-constrained systems, avoiding heavier stuff like file-roller or its KDE equivalent, and even the lightweight XArchiver.

I have attached a patch to XFileArchive.cpp to use gtar instead of tar, similar to the previous patch to get round the use of 'tar -a' in XFE itself. Maybe we should add archivers/gtar to RUNTIME_DEPENDS, as xfa requires it?

-- 
Chris <emulti@disroot.org>

• patch-src_XFileArchive_cpp (3K)