On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:02 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 17:03 -0800, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> > Shouldn't Nautilus' "Connect To..." be moved under the "Actions" gnome-panel
> > menu?
> > IMHO, it has no place in Nautilus, *especially* now that Nautilus' default
> > UI is spatial. I mean, the "Find Files" has more place into Nautilus than
> > "Connect To..." has, and yet, their placement is reversed.
> >
> > And whoever gets the job, might be an idea to also integrate to the "Connect
> > To..." panel other options too, like SSH, telnet, wi-fi, bluetooth, etc.,
> > options that are not only file-based. And Vino should be under the ConnectTo
> > panel too instead of a seperate pref panel. Some integration on this issue
> > would be good.
>
> I agree.
>
> But there's also 'Open Location...'. It should go into the Actions
> too, IMHO, since it is not related in any way to any particular nautilus
> window. It only makes sense to have the accelerator (Ctrl-L) available,
> but the menu item should go into the panel.
>
> This reminds me also of a bit of 'Connect To...' confusion. AFAIK,
> you can connect to any server with 'Open Location...'. The only
> difference between them is that 'Connect To...', besides opening the
> URI, adds a shortcut to it in Computer/Desktop. Thus, the name of this
> action is not accurate. It should be more like 'Add Network
> Shortcut...'. Unless I'm missing something...
>
> Regards.
Well, the idea is that it is a "network volume" that gets connected to
(the connection is represented as an icon on the desktop). MacOS does
the same thing in 9.x and X, though it was confusing there as well
(until I got used to it). In OSX it's named "Connect To..." as well,
though I only knew what that meant b/c of Nautilus.
Mulling the issue a bit makes me think that maybe the way to handle
things like this is in the Bookmarks list (does it still exist?).
Certainly "Network Volumes" are just commonly-used network locations, so
maybe just treating persistant network volumes into bookmarks with a
"Show on the Desktop" checkbox or something would be better management.
But, of course, it'd require user testing to see if actually was better
in practice (specifically among Windows users).
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