On 8/12/06, Danny Milosavljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you ask my mom (just as an example, not that she knows anything about what we're discussing here), it's not an issue about laziness. Editing /etc/fstab is hard. Putting the password directly in that file is also insecure. Browsing the network in Windows with Explorer is easy. You just click away and if prompted, enter a password. Any file you click on will work in any application you throw the file at. I ask: wouldn't that be nice to have in Linux/Xfce?
If Xfce could somehow automatically mount network shares as you browse through them, that would of course work. I'm more interested in the usability aspect than the technical details.
Hi,
On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:58:16 -0500, Ori Bernstein wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:31:33 +0200, "David Tenser"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > said:
>
>> On 8/5/06, Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>
>> Of course, even if Thunar eventually gets samba (omitting ssh) support,
>> it's not very useful unless other applications, such as the media
>> player, can handle the URIs.
BLAH. The thing to fix that properly is called a "mount".
I'm so tired of everone and their brother inventing yet another VFS layer
for no good reason (other that "I'm too lazy to fix the other one" - you
know, the one in the kernel).
If you ask my mom (just as an example, not that she knows anything about what we're discussing here), it's not an issue about laziness. Editing /etc/fstab is hard. Putting the password directly in that file is also insecure. Browsing the network in Windows with Explorer is easy. You just click away and if prompted, enter a password. Any file you click on will work in any application you throw the file at. I ask: wouldn't that be nice to have in Linux/Xfce?
If Xfce could somehow automatically mount network shares as you browse through them, that would of course work. I'm more interested in the usability aspect than the technical details.
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