Re: gnome-user-share

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 08:53 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 21:31 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Hey Alex,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:55 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > I just released the first tarball of gnome-user-share, as described in
> > > my blog at http://www.advogato.org/person/alex/diary.html?start=10.
> > > 
> > > Just install it, run the app and enable it in gconf
> > > at /desktop/gnome/file_sharing/enabled and the shares should appear in
> > > nautilus.
> > > 
> > > Of course, it needs a UI to enable/disable, some integration with gnome-
> > > session and maybe a UI to manage the .htaccess file, but it at least
> > > works.
> > 
> > Nice start. But I'd rather see a "Right-click to share a directory",
> > than a hard-coded directory name.
> 
> Man, here I give you the simples, sweetest, easiest-to-use, non-complex
> user file sharing system ever seen. Something my grandmother could use
> to share a file with someone on an ad-hoc network at a conferance. (Not
> that, my grandmother attends conferances, but anyway.) And what do I
> get? "Nice, but can I get more preferences?"... The pain... :)

It's not like you were expecting this version to be the final release,
is it? :)

> Anyway, if you start generating the config file instead of using the
> same for all users you could of course do anything from that to the full
> apache-config UI that lets you load all sorts of modules and what have
> you.
> 
> However, as soon as you get more advanced you're also raising the bar
> for users. Your example for instance would require much deeper
> integration into the file manager so you can see what files are shared
> and in what ways, and would need much more complicated settings for
> access rights (the public dir basically just needs a password). It would
> also be harder for people to find, and they'd have to understand things
> like "sharing the whole filesystem is bad", and what it means to share a
> directory.
> 
> Not horrible things, but still. I really like the simple stuff.

If it follows symlinks, it would be fair enough to only allow one
directory, but at the same time, we end up with that same problem of
translatable path names.
You'd probably want users to be able to name the public folder, or at
least choose a folder underneath their home directory.

> > Is the code in CVS somewhere?
> 
> Shockingly, its in the gnome-user-share cvs module. :)

Hmm, first thing I tried when you sent the mail, but didn't manage to go
through with it at the time. Maybe a typo.

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