[gnome-network][Fwd: Re: connect to server en gnome-terminal]

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

Here's the answer from Mariano, gnome-terminal maintainer.

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• From: Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>
• To: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>
• Subject: Re: connect to server en gnome-terminal
• Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:41:29 -0300

Hola!

[Replying in English so that forwarding to gnome-network is easier]

On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 23:45 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Hola Mariano
> 
> Creo que eres el maintainer de gnome-terminal ¿verdad?

Yup, with hp as maintainer emeritus.

> Si es así, te quería comentar que queríamos hacer desaparecer el gnome-
> remote-shell, parte de gnome-network, e integrar su funcionalidad
> (conexión a servidores remotos por SSH/Telnet) en gnome-terminal.
> 
> La idea es añadir un menú 'Connect to server' en GT, y una vez
> seleccionado, mostrar un diálogo similar a g-remote-shell que
> simplemente abra un nuevo terminal y ejecute ssh/telnet en él.
>
> Tienes un pantallazo de g-r-s en:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-network/screenshots/remote_shell.jpg

Very HIGgy, cool ;)

> ¿Qué te parece la idea?

Personally, I really think having a separate app for starting remote
shells is better, because, in a very silly line of argument, I don't
think I'd ever look in gnome-terminal menus for that, and second because
that'd force people to open a terminal first in order to start a remote
shell which is rather unnatural.

This should/could be run by desktop-devel-list, I guess.

[Btw, I've seen a profiles patch for g-r-s, and that just cannot go in
gnome-terminal, because (we already have profiles there :) and) because
that would complicate an already too complex thing. That functionality
is expected by users, though.]

One thing I can think of is shipping a profile with gnome-terminal for
remote shells (so that "- Remote Shell" or whatever gets appended to the
end of window titles, for example)

[Btw, looking at gnome-remote-shell.c, I see it is not using the bonobo
factory, which would speed up a little the creation of the terminal
since it would avoid running a gnome-terminal instance.]


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Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>

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