Re: gnome-user-share: and now?

[Owen Williams <ywwg usa net>]

~/Shared makes a lot of sense to me.  ~/public_html has worked for a
long time for web servers, and OSX uses a similar scheme (~/Public and
also ~/Public/Drop Box for write-only).  If GNOME automatically
advertised these services with Bonjour, then we'd really have something
cool.

owen


On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:22 +0100, Jonatan Magnusson wrote:
> tis 2005-11-29 klockan 16:06 +0100 skrev Alexander Larsson:
> > 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.
> 
> I remember reading the flamewar (though not taking part of it) and then
> stop reading it ...
> 
> But this is a really important issue that I encounter every day. For the
> small corporate networks, where I believe the linux desktop has the
> biggest opportunity to get its foot in, there must be a simple answer
> for how to quickly exchange files among the users, and it should not
> include setting up a samba or ftp server.
> 
> Having a single ~/Shared directory, or whatever it should be named,
> sounds ok as long as it allows you to symlink other directories into it.
> Any problems with that?
> 
> And about the translation issue, would it not be reasonable to have an
> english name on disk and display the name with a special notion, for
> example in italic, in file-chooser and nautilus? There is of course a
> problem with 3rd party software, but directory listings, except for the
> file-chooser, are not that common actually...
> 
> Would *really* like to see this in 2.14...
> 
> Jonatan
> 
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