Roberto Pariset 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. > Probably a SendTo option implemented as plugin, which sends some files to > an external app that is in charge of remote transfers would be the cleanest > solution. Basically, something like thunar-archive-plugin.
You don't even need a plugin to add an entry to the "Send To" menu, just add a .desktop file, see http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/sendto_menu > Greets, > Rob Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
