Re: gnome-user-share: and now?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:57 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> So, during 2.9/2.10, gnome-user-share was not accepted as a new module
> [1], because there was a lack of consensus. It allowed users to share
> their files with other users on the network, via the webdav protocol
> (using apache).
> 
> As far as I remember, we didn't get consensus because some people
> thought it would be better to explicitly send files (or the means to get
> them) to individual people rather than to just share them to all. This
> has always seemed more complicated to me, and anyway, we don't have
> either in GNOME at the moment.

There was also the issue of translations of filenames.

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