Re: ftp and Nautilus

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:45:12PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:16:05PM -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
>  
> > How about a dialog like this:
> > 
> >    [ ] Server requires username and password:
> >        Username: __________
> >        Password: __________
> >                               [ Cancel] [ Login ]
> > 
> > If the "Server requires username and password" is unchecked, then the
> > username and password fields are insensitive.
> 
> 
> It doesn't make clear the alternative is anonymous login.
> It feels like asking the user if the server requires username/password.
> But the app should know that ...
> The wording "requires" is misleading, because it can be just an option.

One could use "Log in as guest" that would make it pretty clear.  I'm leary
of context changes like this.  Conceptually they are the same thing but 
thats not what it's called under FTP.

sri