Re: Add Network Neighborhood to Nautilus

[John Palmieri <johnp martianrock com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 05:42, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 11:48, Damien Covey wrote:
> > I love this idea. Dont think that I'll be able to code much for it, but
> > I sure would like to use it (and bug test).
> 
> Don't we all? :^)
> 
> > Extra ideas:
> > When you find a shared directory after browsing the network, it would be
> > good to have an option to mount it somewhere and remember that setting,
> > so next time I log on the network it will be already mounted.
> 
> I think there was a bit of discussion of extending the sidebar tree to
> include something like this - I am not sure if someone is working on it
> yet though, maybe someone is?
> 
I like this idea but perhaps an easier way to implement this for now
would be to clean up the start-here: virtual directory to be more like
My Computers under windows.  Here we could have links to Network,
Configure, Devices, root and home directories.  Network would further be
seperated into NFS, Appletalk, SMB etc. which would automagicly bring us
to the correct browser.  The devices directory would have links(in the
future) to any interactive device connected to the computer(handheld,
camera, removable media, etc.).  This can all (sans devices) be handled
by links.  The only problem with this is that Nautilus does not handle
the up arrow correctly outside of the physical directory stucture.  I
only found out about start-here from my Mandrake install.  Ximian does
not place a link to it on the desktop.  Theoreticly hitting the up arrow
when in the root directory (or perhaps when a user exits his/her home
directory, though this would annoy experienced Unix users)should bring
me to the start-here: directory.  Just my 2 cents.  


> Anyway, something like this:
> 
> .----------------------------.
> | Sidebar tree            [x]|
> |----------------------------|
> |.Network Neighbourhood......|
> |  v Windows workgroups      | <- samba servers and windows machines
> |     v Tigert Workgroup     |
> |          Laptop            |
> |          Samba Server      |
> |                            |
> |  v Appletalk Network       | <- appletalk stuff (netatalk)
> |       mymac                |
> |                            |
> |  > NFS Shares              | <- query for NFS servers on local LAN
> |                            |
> |.Digital Cameras (gphoto)...| <- would show if there is one plugged?
> |                            |
> |.Recent Network Shares......|
> |    "Scratch/" on Laptop    |
> |    "storage/" on bigserver |
> |    "ogg/" on bigserver     |
> | ...                        |
> `----------------------------'
> 
> Netatalk is not implemented yet in gnome-vfs as far as I know.
> 
> But something like the above. I am sure there are other possibilities
> and more things to add too. The recent shares would be sort of like
> Galeon's automatic bookmarks of most often visited stuff. That way you
> dont necessarily need to "mount" the thing anywhere (nautilus' SMB stuff
> does not mount the devices with smbmount, it just accesses the shares
> via the vfs module as far as I know)
> 
> This might perhaps be an useful feature that might make me use the
> sidebar, who knows :-)
> 
> More useful on large LANs though with more users and hosts.
> 
> Tuomas
> 
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