Re: Regarding "Connect To..."

[Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>]

Hi,

See comments below.

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:56:01AM -0600, James M. Cape wrote:
> 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.
Ditto :)

> 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.

The option to show volumes on the desktop is itself an option, I don't
know if its exposed anyway but its a gconf setting in /apps/nautilus,
and is in ubuntu and such turned off by default.


> But, of course, it'd require user testing to see if actually was better
> in practice (specifically among Windows users).

Cheers,
Trent
Bur.st

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Trent Lloyd <lathiat bur st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.