Editing Media Transfer Protocol (section)

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[[GNOME]] applications like [[GNOME Files]] (formerly called Nautilus) and [[Archive Manager]] (formerly called File-Roller) use [[GIO (software)|GIO]]-based [[GVfs]] to access files on MTP devices. Proper MTP support was added to [[GVfs]] in version 1.15.2 (2013-01-15)<ref name="gvfs1-15-2">{{cite web|title=gvfs-1.15.2.changes|url=https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gvfs/1.15/gvfs-1.15.2.changes|date=January 15, 2013|access-date=June 6, 2013|publisher=ftp.gnome.org|archive-date=March 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329103339/https://mirror.umd.edu/gnome/sources/gvfs/1.15/gvfs-1.15.2.changes|url-status=live}}</ref> by Philip Langdale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.intr.overt.org/?p=153|title=Native gvfs backend for MTP devices|date=August 7, 2010|access-date=June 1, 2016|archive-date=April 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414111758/http://blog.intr.overt.org/?p=153|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/d6c8e3a4910ee2c5968886328ebe9456b445796b|title=gvfs - Virtual filesystem implementation for GIO|date=January 15, 2013 |at=git commit adding MTP back-end to GVfs|access-date=June 1, 2016|archive-date=October 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018185136/https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/d6c8e3a4910ee2c5968886328ebe9456b445796b|url-status=live}}</ref> Early patches for GVfs to enable Google's direct I/O extensions are available.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695984|title=Bug 695984 – Add support for Android direct I/O extensions|access-date=June 1, 2016|archive-date=December 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223034131/https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695984|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[KDE|The KDE Project]] develops the MTP [[KIO]] Slave with a similar level of integration as GVfs.

Not related to GNOME or KDE is the *NIX graphical MTP-capable media player, [https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ gMTP].