Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Brian Skahan wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:31:00 -0800, Ken Harris <ken bitpoetry com> wrote:
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> > Also, if you have ~/Public/Drop Box/, there's an easy, standard place
> > for other people to give you stuff.  I know people who, if they saw
> > this, would say "a-ha! that's neat, I can use that", but if a drop-box
> > wasn't provided, they wouldn't realize that they could set up such a
> > folder, much less figure it out themselves.
> >    
>
> Having a rw dropbox is an interesting idea.
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> > (Note, I'm not saying that you shouldn't also be allowed to share other
> > folders.  I haven't actually made up my mind on that yet.  But even if
> > you do, making this automatic will help out lots of people who don't
> > want to muck around with per-folder sharing options.)
> >    
>
> What about the vfolder shared:/// or public:/// idea, that way you
> could share multiple folders and still have a central place to check
> and say "oops, need to hide that one now".  It gets away from
> translatable on-disk names too.
>  
We've been trying to get away from creating new random VFS methods for 
things when they aren't needed.

Also, there is already a quick way to check what you are sharing: go to 
the Network window and double click on "username's public files" (for 
epittance, it looks like it would be "username's shares").

James.