Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Fwd: Re: Community Service]

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi Garrett,

There may have been some misunderstanding - I was forwarding a mail from 
Andrew on to evo-hackers. His ideas all revolve around Evolution, so I 
figure someone here could help him out and provide some mentoring 
through his public service (and keep him around after it ;)

Anyone game?

Cheers,
Dave.

Garrett LeSage wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>
> > Web based file system interaction through gnome/apache.  Reach your
> > files from anywhere via, gnome and apache.  Similar to publishing in
> > evolution, but available for all(as much as you want) of your home
> > directory through nautilus or a new application!
>
>
>
> Dave,
>
> There's really good news!  Your requested feature already exists, and  
> it works wonderfully.  There's even a GUI frontend to add remote  mounts 
> in the standard menus.
>
> Nautilus currently supports WebDAV, which is pretty much a Web based  
> file system.  Apache has the capability of serving WebDAV (although  it 
> is a little bit of a pain to set up).
>
> Thankfully, Nautilus also supports other means of getting to remote  
> file systems, such as the typical SMB mounts and ssh/sftp support.
>
> Using ssh or sftp (sftp is better, as it's actually made for stuff  like 
> this) is transparent for the user, once it is set up.  It  requires the 
> same information as it does to ssh to a host.
>
> Tuomas Kuosmanen, Jakub Steiner, myself, and many others at work use  
> the sftp support every day.
>
> Your idea is exactly right -- it is very handy to be able to remotely  
> manipulate files in the same way as you do with local files.
>
> Also, since the capability to do all of this is actually provided by  
> gnome-vfs, any application that fully supports gnome-vfs (far too  few, 
> actually) can even have full read-write access to files -- and  the user 
> simply treats it like it's on their own computer!
>
> Thankfully, the Gimp can support gnome-vfs (at least from the CVS  
> version), so Tuomas, Jakub, and myself all use it all the time, in  
> addition to Nautilus.  We can drag and drop remote files from  Nautilus 
> on the Gimp and use its file selection dialogs to open and  save files.
>
> We do wish that more applications used gnome-vfs; perhaps there can  be 
> a push to have more software make use of it.
>
> Garrett

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Dave Neary
bolsh gimp org
Lyon, France