Re: Nautilus Sendto -- opportunities for generalisation

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hi Edd,

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Edd Dumbill wrote:

> > My alternative solution is to make the GNOME Phone Manager phone object
> > just another icon in Nautilus that people can use as if it were a

> Bluetooth has two ways of doing file transfer.  OBEX FTP, which would be
> handled with a gnome-vfs method (not yet implemented), and OBEX PUSH,
> which is "beaming" (implemented in gnome-obex-send).

But why bother the user with this distinction? If the user wants to send 
a file to his phone, does it matter *how* this is performed under the 
surface?

> "Send to" is the correct semantics here.

Perhaps it is, but I still don't see the need of cluttering nautilus 
context menus with stuff few people will use some of the time.

> Maybe the answer is a similar way to the way the panel applet choice 
> has been solved.

I think I missed that. URL?

regards,

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