Re: gnome-user-share: and now?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:43 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:57 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >> So, during 2.9/2.10, gnome-user-share was not accepted as a new module
> >> [1], because there was a lack of consensus. It allowed users to share
> >> their files with other users on the network, via the webdav protocol
> >> (using apache).
> >>
> >> As far as I remember, we didn't get consensus because some people
> >> thought it would be better to explicitly send files (or the means to get
> >> them) to individual people rather than to just share them to all. This
> >> has always seemed more complicated to me, and anyway, we don't have
> >> either in GNOME at the moment.
> >
> > There was also the issue of translations of filenames.
> 
> I thought that was mostly done now, with the new API in glib. Did any
> GNOME maintainers object to your suggestion?

There was a huge flamewar about which approach to use. The glib API
addition was for the english-on-disk-translate-in-ui approach. Some
people like it, some not. I'm not even sure which side I am on anymore.

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