Been hacking on gnome-vfs the last couple of days, and I've just finished my first patch; here's the mandatory screenshot. A bunch of stuff is still missing, but the basic plug-n-play features are there. Since I'm a junkie for eye-candy one of the first things I want to do, is use some of the information exported by HAL to select nice icons like on the Mac I'm writing this on right now.
GUADEC
I'll be speaking at GUADEC next month on the topic "HAL and GNOME"; that'll be fun. I also need to finish the paper within a week; ugh. Oh, and the GUADEC press release mentions HAL. Rad!