Here goes, Mockup: http://www.hadess.net/files/shots/25-06-2002.1.jpg Ideas: 1) Completely based off Gnome-vfs (no kernel support needed) 2) supports: - ssh - smb - nntp - webdav - ftp (where's the nfs module gone ?) 3) how it works ? Tries to open the uri mentioned as a directory. I. Permission denied ? Ask for password. Modify the URI in consequence. II. Still couldn't connect ? Fail. III. Works, create a .desktop in the user's desktop (saving username/password), add it to the user's favourites (more on that later), and open this desktop file with nautilus. Browse feature: Merely a virtual folder containing the local network neighbourhood as smb:/// gives us, and the user's favourites. The main problem being that only smb: gives us a browsing feature. That sucks, but that's life. Why no kernel support ? Because it only has smb and nfs support builtin, the others working more or less (rather less than more). And mixing gnome-vfs with kernel style, would only give the user more problems. (need for root, permissions on mounted devices depending on who mounted it, etc.) Ideas ? Before I start implementing this thing ;) Cheers PS: BTW, where should we put the code ? Obviously in Gnome CVS, but where ? -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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