Re: New module proposal: gnome-user-share

[Frej Soya <frej soya gmail com>]

Bastien Nocera <hadess <at> hadess.net> writes:

> 
> Heya,
> 
> I'd be interested in getting gnome-user-share into GNOME 2.26.
snip.. 
> 
> We're also looking into integrating Frank Scholz' UPNP sharing work (see
> http://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/Nautilus).
This would be really cool, especially if it makes sharing 'just work' on 
windows. 

<snip>

> Questions?
More 'dump of memory' than questions... but :)

These two to bugs should be reviewed again. 
(I doubt the nautilus bug has been fixed, I haven't checked though).

–nautilus should use mdns hostname for bookmark/keyring
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326705

The best way could to always check if the published mdns record has changed,
before doing anything. Not a real g-u-s issue, but if nautilus barfs on
mdns+webdav so does g-u-s ;).

–symbolic links does not appear in a webdav client.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326702
Discussed elsewhere in this thread...
It would suck to copy several GB's of data for sharing a file, probably slow as 
well. But allowing symlinks might be a security risk as noted in the bug above.
Maybe nobody will actually do this, so it might not be important, pure guessing.

-How to actually use g-u-s (discovery).
I'm 90% g-u-s it requires enabling in a capplet, that's bad ;). Enabling by
default is also bad so some ideas...
1) Use the topbar feature in nautilus when showing ~/Public, enabling  disabling
filesharing.
2) When copying files to ~/Public and file-sharing is disabled, ask the user if
they want to enable file-sharing. But asking the user is annoying.


> Cheers
>