Re: Connect to Server feature

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> writes:
>  
>
> > I'd like to get this merged in upstream. These are changes against
> > gnome-panel, gnome-vfs and gnome-vfs-extras (not in the current patches
> > for gnome-vfs-extras).
> >
> > http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/26-06-2002.1.jpg
> > http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/25-06-2002.1.jpg
> >
> > It adds a "connect to server" menu item to the actions menu, so you just
> > have to enter your url, and nautilus will connect to it.
> >    
>
> What's the difference between this and typing "smb://foo" into the Run
> dialog?
>
> Maybe instead of network: it should be shares: or something? And the
> menu item "Open File Shares" or "Open Shared Disks" or something like
> that. Or "Open Location" more generally?
>
> Maybe a "Shared Files" link next to Home Folder in applications:, or
> in start-here, would be a better way to do the browsing?
>
> To me it makes sense to have Open Location somewhere that opens any
> URI, and then a shortcut to the network: URI specifically somewhere
> (but as a button in Open Location doesn't seem logical).
>
> Just some random thoughts, I didn't look at the code.
>  
This sounds very similar to the Windows "My Network Places" virtual 
folder (hate the name, but like the functionality).  It is basically a 
way to store links to often used file shares, computers, webdav servers, 
etc.  To add a link/shortcut into the network places folder on windows, 
there is an "Add network place" icon in the folder itself, which is nice 
as it associates the action of adding the icons with the window where 
the icon will appear.  Maybe this would be a good idea for hadess's 
network: folder.

James.

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