Hi all, First some background info. Gmailfs is basically using your gmail account as a filesystem. I've been trying to use gmailfs on ubuntu gutsy for the past 12 hrs. without success. Please note that I'm cross-posting this both as the package is both in debian as well as ubuntu. As Sebastian Delafond is the official maintainer of the package also ccing him.
First the package in question :- http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/gmailfs in debian https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gmailfs in ubuntu Homepage of Gmail filesystem :- http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem-implementation.html First of all the frustrations I have had with gmailfs can be seen here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gmailfs/+question/11592/ Of course the answer may be some option or something which I've not tried to do & hopefully will be known/sorted out in short period of time, but the larger picture is I'm not happy with the current scenario as it takes the user to know quite a bit of knowledge of how mount works & stuff. I lack the skill to implement whatever I'm going to outline but if somebody has the drive or the motivation to apply it please do so. I ran this idea by the upstream author & while he thinks its a good idea but would rather if somebody else made that gtk+ dialog boxes. Now the actual thing, right now if one installs gmailfs one needs to do a man mount.gmailfs, read the instructions, see if he is able to make sense & know where /etc/fstab is put the stuff there as it is & hope it works or do the same in the CLI & hope that works. Now for a second please assume I know nothing about mount points and what they are. I just know that there are some apps. which I can install from synaptic & they work out of box. Gmailfs doesn't . What could make it better? Perhaps you (somebody from the community) could make a gtk front-end dialog box so after installing gmailfs invokes mount.gmailfs which in turn invokes the gtk front-end and says it needs superuser or root privileges, then the dialog-box gives example of what a mount point is etc and a place to fill in, username & password & whatever else is required. It would make gmailfs more usable. Have no idea either way if and any security implications are as of now and after having the dialog box. Another tool which people use to do mount is gnome-mount atleast on the GNOME/GTK side, the description for gnome-mount is Description :- wrapper for (un)mounting and ejecting storage devices Looking for comments, suggestions & possibly somebody coming forward & doing an actual implementation of it. If this has been discussed before or if this is not the proper mailing list (as the package is something which is the universe repository) please feel free to guide me the same. -- Shirish Agarwal This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]