On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 04:56, James Henstridge wrote: > 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. It's the same, except that here you add the shortcuts from the dialog, not from nautilus. -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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