Re: Proposal: gnome-user-share

[Kai Willadsen <kaiw itee uq edu au>]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:41 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> gnome-user-share is a way to easily transport files between users
> on a network. It works by starting a webdav server on a (random) high
> port which is then published using mDNS. The webdav server just
> exports the ~/Public folder. This means it will show up in the network
> location in Nautilus, or in any mDNS browser that looks 
> for webdav servers.

When the first great '$HOME as desktop' flamewar ended, the point that
seemed to decide the issue in favour of ~/Desktop was the fact that
there were many 3rd-party apps that (ab)used $HOME to store their own
data in a user-visible fashion [1].

Without wanting to bring up this argument *yet again*, it would be nice
if additions to the desktop didn't deliberately make the same mistakes
that stopped '$HOME as desktop' being an impractical default in the
first place. Particularly so, given that the usability consensus seemed
to be that it was a better paradigm, and would be nice to be able to
switch to at some stage in the (probably distant) future.

-- 
Kai Willadsen

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-
May/msg00758.html