Re: New module proposal: gnome-user-share

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> I'd be interested in getting gnome-user-share into GNOME 2.26.
>
> Currently, gnome-user-share is a simple capplet and "daemon" combination
> that, through obex-data-server and apache, provides users with simple
> file sharing.
>
> Currently it supports:
> - ObexFTP and ObexPush (through obex-data-server)
> - DAV file sharing (through Apache's httpd)
>
> Future plans include:
> - Sharing optical media drives:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530744
> - Sharing selected drives:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355382
>
> We're also looking into integrating Frank Scholz' UPNP sharing work (see
> http://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/Nautilus).
>
> But one of the main shorter term goals is to get the desktop sharing
> feature of vino integrated into gnome-user-share.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471366
>
> Questions?

Any plans on making it work without pushing Apache HTTPd onto
desktops? A small embedded HTTP server should be enough.

Not only is Apache quite a huge dependency to have, it is also very
hard to package this into a generic distro where Apache comes
preconfigured for heavy server use (and the same is true for most
"big" httpds).

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki