Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

["Dirk-Jan C. Binnema" <bulkmeel yahoo co uk>]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 21:18 (-0500), Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 17:19 -0800, Ken Harris wrote:
> > > ~/Public is going to suck in two major use-cases: small/medium-scale
> > > inter-company sharing ("Ann works on annual reports, but her entire
> > > section needs to access them"), and neighbourhood-type sharing of movies
> > > and music ("Tom wants to share his 10GB music collection with Tim next
> > 
> > Ann clicks "Annual Reports", chooses "Make Link", chooses Places->Shared
> > Files, drags link to Shared Files.  (Or, unless she works at a really
> > small company, Ann makes a new folder on the file server.)
> > 
> > Tom clicks "Music", chooses "Make Link", chooses Places->Shared Files,
> > drags link to Shared Files.  (Or, if he's good at dragging, he chooses
> > Places->Shared Files, and control-shift-drags Music there.)
> > 
> > Where's the suck?
> 
> The fact that it's not just "Foo clicks 'Blah' and chooses 'Share'" and
> instead two extra steps, one of which is rather technical (difference
> between link and copy is, from the user model, what exactly?) and the
> other is equally conceptually fuzzy ("magic" folder that has super-
> secret-cranky-office-temp sharing powers).

Well, of course you could just have a 'Share'/'Unshare' menu option
which would in fact create/delete the symlink in ~/Public.

And of course, if you browse ~/Public, nautilus can show a note saying
that files there with the funny little arrows can be deleted safely
without affecting the real file.

--Dirk.

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