Re: Regarding "Connect To..."

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Enver ALTIN wrote:

> Merhaba,
>
> 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.
> >   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.
>
> Not everybody has menu bar on their panels, some people use the menu
> applet and some people may not have anything on their panel. How on
> earth can they access these?

Alt-F1?

> Is the Microsoft way of doing this so ugly? A special launcher named
> "Add Connection" in Computer folder, which would equally do the same?

*Bzzzt*. "Not everyone has Nautilus". I don't for instance.

> > 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...
>
> I second this.

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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