Re: New module proposal: gnome-user-share

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 13:22 +0000, Frej Soya wrote:
> Bastien Nocera <hadess <at> hadess.net> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Heya,
> > 
> > I'd be interested in getting gnome-user-share into GNOME 2.26.
> snip.. 
> > 
> > We're also looking into integrating Frank Scholz' UPNP sharing work (see
> > http://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/Nautilus).
> This would be really cool, especially if it makes sharing 'just work' on 
> windows. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Questions?
> More 'dump of memory' than questions... but :)
> 
> These two to bugs should be reviewed again. 
> (I doubt the nautilus bug has been fixed, I haven't checked though).
> 
> –nautilus should use mdns hostname for bookmark/keyring
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326705
> 
> The best way could to always check if the published mdns record has changed,
> before doing anything. Not a real g-u-s issue, but if nautilus barfs on
> mdns+webdav so does g-u-s ;).

That's definitely a nautilus issue, and some people are working on it
already...

> –symbolic links does not appear in a webdav client.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326702
> Discussed elsewhere in this thread...
> It would suck to copy several GB's of data for sharing a file, probably slow as 
> well. But allowing symlinks might be a security risk as noted in the bug above.
> Maybe nobody will actually do this, so it might not be important, pure guessing.

Unless somebody comes up with a good way to avoid sharing things that
shouldn't be shared, I'll leave this bug opened and open for comments.

> -How to actually use g-u-s (discovery).
> I'm 90% g-u-s it requires enabling in a capplet, that's bad ;). Enabling by
> default is also bad so some ideas...
> 1) Use the topbar feature in nautilus when showing ~/Public, enabling  disabling
> filesharing.
> 2) When copying files to ~/Public and file-sharing is disabled, ask the user if
> they want to enable file-sharing. But asking the user is annoying.

We could definitely have a clue bar in there. Could you file a bug about
this please?

Cheers