Re: Add Network Neighborhood to Nautilus

[Bruce Robert Pocock <brpocock 10east com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 13:36, David Moles wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 08:32, snickell stanford edu wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure of the implementation feasibility (do all interesting
> > protocols allow us to determine a unique identifier, say IP address, for
> > the machine sharing resources, so we don't get computers showing up
> > twice?), but I generally like the idea of making protocol less visible
> > here. You're right, the user wants to access a particular resource not
> > "use SMB" or "use AppleTalk". There might also be some interface
> > conflicts, e.g. in how the various services allow heirarchy and such,
> > but if the implementation was feasible and the interface conflicts could
> > be overcome this would be a pretty slick system.
> 
> What about the scenario of one machine having different shares
> with different protocols? We might need an extra layer of abstraction
> in that case (clicking on the machine gets you a virtual folder with
> that machine's different shared resources), at least.
> 

e.g.

========================================================================
"Network Resources: WORKSTATION"
 
   [P]                  [F]                       {F}
 PRINTER               FILES                    Mac Files
SMB Printer         SMB Shared Files        AFP Shared Files
========================================================================
... perhaps common icons for (printer filesystem ...) with emblems to
indicate (Samba AppleTalk DAV ...) applied (to cut the number of
required icons down to a manageable number...)

e.g.
"Folder" icon + "Network Import" emblem + "Samba" emblem
"Printer" icon + "Network Import" emblem + "AppleTalk" emblem
...?

One problem might be normative URI's... I suppose e.g.
"network-resources://WORKSTN-NMB/" (its NMB name) &
"network-resources://Workstation DDP/" (its NBP name) &
"network-resources://Workstation.MyOrg.Org/" (its DNS name) might just
all show the same view? -- c.v. "smb://WORKSTN-NMB/" or (non-existent)
"afp://Workstation DDP/"

The "display name" (e.g. title bar / side bar) should probably be taken
from NBP, else NMB Title-Cased, else DNS in the case DNS returns it
(i.e. DNS A/PTR case), since that's likely the order of "most
legible/friendly/..." to "least legible"