On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:42:28 +0200, Roberto Pariset wrote: > Martin Hauser wrote: > > Who says it must be gnome libs? Still, there may be a few people > > around who like typing an 80 char line for scp every time they > > aiming copy a few files to a remote location... i'm not one of > > those. I agree gnome-vfs is bad, as far as i have seen it's not > > something a filemanager like thunar should build upon. But that > > doesn't stop anyone from getting this included in thunar otherwise, > > does it? I think it would be really nice if thunar could handle > > scp,sftp,ftp and maybe webdav, guess would make life a step more > > easier. > > Hehe :) To be honest, I am quite used to use the shell when it comes > to ftp (lftp rox0r!) and ssh. That's also because there's no nice gui > that allows you to do that. I have been a Gnome user for a while in > the past, and I really found their ftp interface unflexible and > limitated (just like all the rest, IMHO). > If Thunar were to implement this, I really believe that a SendTo menu > would make it real easy. However, it's just for sending. To > receive... well, I guess a dual fs view, like mc, could be helpful, > to move files between different locations. So the side pane should > implement something like Icon View as well. Maybe it's too much.
These features don't need to be implemented in Thunar, necessarily. Perhaps some of you remember the applications://, network:// etc. special locations of Nautilus. These special URIs follow the typical protocol URI scheme we all know from http:// or ftp://. So, here's how Thunar could take up these ideas to provide FTP, SCP and whatever support: Thunar could (and probably will, as I know from a talk with Benny back in March or April) implement a generic protocol URI system. For example, there could be THUNAR_VFS_URI_FILE handling URIs starting with "/", "file://" THUNAR_VFS_URI_FTP handling URIs starting with "ftp://"; THUNAR_VFS_URI_HTTP handling URIs starting with "http://"; THUNAR_VFS_URI_SMB handling URIs starting with "smb://" THUNAR_VFS_URI_DESKTOP handling URIs starting with "desktop://" and so on ... Now plugins could register to handle a certain URI scheme, e.g. there could be a FTP plugin registering the THUNAR_VFS_URI_FTP scheme. This means, all "ftp://..."; URIs would be handled by this plugin which provides e.g. a twin-pane view or a FTP shell for the 133t guys amongst us. Note, that these are just my ideas, the fact I talked with Benny about them doesn't mean they will be implemented this way. He knows better which way is the best to go than I do. But the general concept of URI handlers might move responsibility out of Thunar and towards plugins. As a consequence, no one would have to fear that Thunar might become bloated. So, this is just a message to calm you all down. This "OH NO! PLEASE NOT GNOME!" debate is totally irrelevant - there simply are no plans to copy the bad parts of Nautilus. Regards, Jannis
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