Re: gnome-user-share

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 21:31 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Hey Alex,
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:55 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I just released the first tarball of gnome-user-share, as described in
> > my blog at http://www.advogato.org/person/alex/diary.html?start=10.
> > 
> > Just install it, run the app and enable it in gconf
> > at /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/enabled and the shares should appear in
> > nautilus.
> > 
> > Of course, it needs a UI to enable/disable, some integration with gnome-
> > session and maybe a UI to manage the .htaccess file, but it at least
> > works.
> 
> Nice start. But I'd rather see a "Right-click to share a directory",
> than a hard-coded directory name.

Man, here I give you the simples, sweetest, easiest-to-use, non-complex
user file sharing system ever seen. Something my grandmother could use
to share a file with someone on an ad-hoc network at a conferance. (Not
that, my grandmother attends conferances, but anyway.) And what do I
get? "Nice, but can I get more preferences?"... The pain... :)

Anyway, if you start generating the config file instead of using the
same for all users you could of course do anything from that to the full
apache-config UI that lets you load all sorts of modules and what have
you.

However, as soon as you get more advanced you're also raising the bar
for users. Your example for instance would require much deeper
integration into the file manager so you can see what files are shared
and in what ways, and would need much more complicated settings for
access rights (the public dir basically just needs a password). It would
also be harder for people to find, and they'd have to understand things
like "sharing the whole filesystem is bad", and what it means to share a
directory.

Not horrible things, but still. I really like the simple stuff.

> Is the code in CVS somewhere?

Shockingly, its in the gnome-user-share cvs module. :)

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