On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 05:39, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > Le dim 09/03/2003 � 23:07, Austin a �crit : > > > > I'll bite the troll here ;-) > > > > Gnome is a good environment for experienced Linux people, but it lacks a > > lot of polish for people coming from the Windows world. > > > > Take the file dialog for example. Tell some corporate users they have to > > save everything on the file server, in /mnt/corporate. They'll have to > > click on the ".." entry, then they'll get in /home and see all the > > users, be confused, and maybe they'll try .. again and then click on > > /mnt and then click on /corporate and finally save their stuff at the > > right place. > > > > Then look at the KDE file dialog, at the left, you have a nice place > > where people can make their shortcuts. Put it in the system wide > > configuration, and every user will have a FILESERVER icon that they can > > use easily. > > > > Yes, and you can put url's like fish://webserver/ or ftp://ftpserver or > (if kio_smb works well enough) smb://sambaserver/share or (if kio_lan > works well enough) lan://localhost there. > > You can't beat opening a html page from an ftpserver from Konqueror in > Quanta, and just being able to hit CTRL-S. > > Even when Gnome eventually gets a tree view in the file dialog (AFAIK > coming soon), they still won't have this funtionality for quite a while ... > > Now we just need to have a replacement for kio_smb, which smbmount's > instead of smbclient's (which could get things like locking between > windows and linux clients etc working). > > Buchan >
Dang I could use something like that just to get our salesmans win200000 and xp and 98 laptops talking to each other... let alone Linux integration... *grin*
