Hi, Am Samstag, den 31.12.2005, 13:02 +0800 schrieb Shu Hung (Koala): > Hello, > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to say this, > but I do have a little comment on VFS.
Looks like the right place :) > > VFS is a great stuff in gnome and I love this very much. > I think VFS can be better if it can provide these functions: > 1. let user to customize encoding for VFS folder > VFS reads a filesystem using UTF-8 encoding and sometimes read > things wrong. > You may no have this experience but I face it lots of time > (since I'm a Chinese user) This would be a band-aid. A programmer should not force users to set gibberish properties (I'm a programmer and _even I_ hate those select charset encoding dialogs - can't the computer figure it out on it's own? After all, I typed the text just fine, so how is it my business to tell the computer _how to unbreak what he himself broke_?) (also type "iconv -l" to see why putting this in a combo box is a really really bad idea: about 960 !! items) Better course of action, ordered most desireable/clean first: 1) fix the VFS protocol / underlying protocol to actually read the encoding from where it has been stored - the computer DID store the encoding somewhere so he can read what he wrote later, riight? That means you, FTP (and UNIX filesystems, for that matter - though the latter is uniformly moving to UTF-8 - good) ;) 2) If 1) is not doable, put a dummy file on the server volume that contains the encoding and make gnome-vfs read and honor that. It is better when the *admin* can set the encoding than when the user has to - the user usually gives a damn if the computer stores the text in celtic runes internally, really 3) If all that doesn't work, fall back to a default and force everyone to either use that default or do 1) or 2) instead. Do _not_ put encoding into user-visible GUI. For an admin, maybe there should be a way to override the detected volume via a unbreak-me-list in gconf or /etc or the homedir or something.... as a band-aid. But it is not there to stay first-class. > I have a workstation with fileilla server on Windwos XP. The > filesystem is in Big5 > but seems VFS does notice that. It would be best to let user > to configure the > charset of a VFS folder instead of just use UTF-8. It would be best if the darn protocol figured out the charset on it's own and stopped bothering the user with gibberish ;) > > 1. allow user to modified a previously set VSF folder > for many times, I set some of my FTP wrong on VFS. Currently, > I cannot reconfigure > an existing VFS folder and I have to do things all over again. > It would be better if > I can just right click the folder, press "setting" and > reconfigure VFS folders. So what you actually want is a "test this connection" button so that you can see if the information is correct without closing the dialog? > > 1. agreement between menu icon reaction and desktop icon reaction > it is a little bit confuseing with the desktop icons and menu > icons. If you right click > the icon menu, the folder will show up. However, if you right > click the desktop icon, > it gives you a menu for properties and unmount. It would be > best if I can get the > menu for properties and unmount when I right click either one > icon. What do you mean? What menu icon? Where? > > 1. let user to select if they want "Desktop Icon" or not > If the point (3) is implemented, then the desktop icon would > not necessary. It would > be best to let user to choose if they want the "Desktop Icon" > or not. Proberly its Yeah, admin setting, desireable. As a side note, having ~ 100 volume desktop icons show up on the desktop of a storage area network is weird, believe me ;) > the best to provide same options as the application menu to > the place menu icons. > That means if you right click the icon, you can choose to "add > this icon to panel" or > "add this icon to desktop" > What menu is that? > If so, right-clicking the icon on location menu would give a > menu with these options: > 1. Add this item to panel > 2. Add this item to desktop > 3. Unmount thie filesystem > What application? > These are just my little wishes to VFS and I think most people would > be happy to see these. Well, first and foremost I'd like the underlying problems to be fixed. If that is not possible, I'd like workarounds for admin settings on the _server_ side be implemented and if that fails too, I'd like it to break really badly so the server author gets a lot of complaints and fixes the darn program :) > Thanks your reading. > > Koala Yeung cheers, Danny _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
