I agree that there's a big flaw in the current behaviour. 1) Sometimes, you not have read access on "/" of a distant host
2) You don't want to display on the desktop something you will never use. (a direct connection to the "/" is rarely needed). Let's take one example : I've mounted a SFTP distant folder on my mother's desktop so she can easily upload pictures on his blog. It works great. If it's decided that such things should go in the bookmarks, I might accept this and learn her to use the bookmarks instead of the folders on her desktop(*). But why oh why should she have an icon on her desktop pointing to something she doesn't understand (the "/" folder of an hosting server is not something she can understand). (*) Although I must say that such a change in user habits must be higly motivated. The UI has not to depend of the implementational stuff behing. The GVFS thing is something my mother doesn't car and doesn't have to care. I have to explain here the logic behind her UI change, like "Using bookmarks is more consistent with the rest of the desktop"(which I don't believe) or whatever. Currently, the whole discussion is about wheter or not the architecture can do it. This is really bad. We cannot change the UI behaviour based on the architecture. It's the wrongest thing we can ever do in UI design. Also, the use of bookmarks breaks completely my current spatial nautilus workflow where all I do start on the desktop. Providing a way to display bookmarks on the desktop might be a (naughty) workaround but I must agree that this I'm not the general use case so it's more of a sidesnote. Anyway, in order to solve this bug, I consider that : - Mounted / must never be showed anywhere. It must be transparent. - The current "connect" dialog has to create a bookmark automatically (and mount the server if not already) Optional : Networked bookmarks must be shown on the desktop (to provide backward compatibility with the current experience) Optional : Currently saved network places must be automatically imported into bookmarks. -- nautilus does not show existing sftp connected servers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198857 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
