[gnome-network]Re: network://

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 08:48 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 00:14, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > We are planning, in gnome-network, to do some Zeroconf (aka RendezVous)
> > support. One of the things we are thinking is to have some special
> > folders in network:// that allow the user to view the autodetected
> > services for different protocols.
> > 
> > This means, we need to have things like:
> > 
> > 	network://WWW
> > 	network://FTP
> > 	...
> > 
> > which would display a list of links to the discovered servers for every
> > service. This is similar to XD2's 'Network neighborhood' icon in
> > network://.
> > 
> > So, how can we do that?
> > 
> > Also, the network:// stuff seems to be incomplete (with even disabled
> > code in Nautilus about it). So, what are the plans on that?
> 
> The whole network:// thing is a vfolder, with all the brokenness of the
> vfolder backend. I really don't like the way its currently done, so I
> try to minimize exposeage of it. We have to sit down and figure out a
> comprehensive strategy to mountpoints, removable media, things like
> non-usb-storage digital cameras and network filesystem resources. 
> 
do you have any thoughts on that? I was thinking, at least for the
network:// stuff, if it could be a gnome-vfs module?

Of course, I don't know if that will fit for mountpoints, removable
media, etc

cheers