Re: Proposed: gnome-network

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:37, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > gnome-remote-shell
> > ------------------
> > 
> > 	A sweet frontend for ssh-ing or telnet-ing to a remote host. Reminds me
> > of "putty" on Windows.
> > 
> >   + Again, I'm a little worried that this is another "geek tool", but
> >     I suppose if we include a terminal then there isn't much reason
> >     not to include this.
> > 
> >     Silly thought: could this feature not belong in the terminal ?
> 
> That's how it's done on Panther, but it's not very discoverable. There's
> also the option of combining this and the remote display UI. What you're
> really looking at here is 'remote access' to another machine - whether it's
> display or shell, or which protocol is used, is just a detail of this goal.
> 
right. We talked about having all these remote connections be part of
network://, so that you can just create launchers for, say,
ssh://whatever, xdcmp://whatever... and have the corresponding client be
run. We only talked, and never came out with a good way of doing that.
Probably we should target in this direction?

> > 	I feel like each one of them is targeting different types of users and
> > are only grouped together because they have something to do with
> > networking. What I'd love to see is some sort of bigger picture view of
> > what this module is about - are they "geek toys" or are they widely
> > useful tools to bring more of the benefits of networking to a large
> > proportion of our users?
> 
> I think the 'geektoy' analysis of the network tool is fairly true, but
> having a simple tool like this available for users to provide information to
> sysadmins and so on is pretty useful. It might have a place. However, the
> idea of splitting these up, adding some of the other network utilities we
> have available, and working on a 'network tools release' sounds much better
> to me - many of them share common infrastructure, after all.
> 
separating the tools in different modules is also in our TODO list.

cheers