Re: Connect to Server dialog

[Maciej Katafiasz <mnews22 wp pl>]

W liście z śro, 14-07-2004, godz. 14:55, Jamie McCracken pisze: 
> > The things I wanted to improve most were the 
> > 	Folder: None	<-- This is not so obvious what's going on
> 
> I agree but not all services require a mount point so it could be
> insensitive/hidden rather than just saying "None". Incidentally it could
> be renamed "Folder Mount Point" to make it clear that it is a mount
> (there might be a better word than mount here - Folder Attachment
> Point?, Folder Link Point? etc)

Nah, let's not try to be too smart here, Mount Point is probably best we
can come up with, and it could (in fact it definitely _should_) be
explained in tooltip. There simply isn't two-words-long description of
it suitable for totally unfamiliar user, and putting any strange name
there will be disrespectful to user already familiar with mount point
concept, discarding their previous knowledge.

> > 	Anonymous FTP	<-- Needs some improvement
> 
> I thought about what Calum said. The best I could come up with is
> "Public FTP" and "Private FTP" services.

Yeah, "Public FTP" gets thumbs up from me. "Private FTP" may be better
changed with "FTP (with Username)" (is ftp server published on some web
forum, with login reggaemp3/reggaemp3[1] "public", or "private"?), but I
may be wrong :)

> > 	Password Later?	<-- A hint that the password will be asked for
> > 				or just integrating the key-ring manager
> It would be nice to have it all as one dialog but if key-ring is a
> separate dialog then it only needs to pop up if it doesn't have the
> password already stored (of course what happens if the password has
> changed? Might be good idea to have option in dialog to override
> key-ring if necessary - a "use key-ring setting for password" checkbox
> in the dialog, perhaps?)

"[ ]Use remembered password", and hint text along the lines of "Password
will be asked for if necessary" should be good enough.

One more thing, this mockup doesn't take into account recent servers
(see discussion on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139105)

[1] Typical FTP usage my sisters face


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