Re: File sharing with Nautilus

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 00:17, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Le lun 18/08/2003 à 00:08, Rodrigo Moya a écrit :
> > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 23:39, Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
> > > 
> > > But we still have the problem of collisions with Apache or other
> > > servers. And the firewall. And some of the others I mentioned.
> > > 
> > the only not-so-bad solution I can think of with HTTP is using the
> > ~/public_html directory as a way for sharing files. But then, again,
> > you'll need access to the apache configuration if user home directories
> > are disabled, for instance. If we could rely on apache having always
> > this enabled, then we could be set to use that.
> 
> Would it be hard to test if apache has that enabled, and only activate
> the context menu entry if it does?
> 
no, it shouldn't be too hard, I guess, just parse the apache conf file.

But, we could even have the menu item always enabled, and, if apache
does not have the feature activated, display a dialog telling the user
what to do to have it working. Thus, we don't hide the feature from the
user.

cheers