maybe a gsoc project?



On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Natan Yellin <aantny gmail com> wrote:
2009/3/30 b0unc3 <daniele maio gmail com>



On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
Hej hej,

I know I'm picky, anyway: Can you please avoid top postings?
Thanks in advance.

Sorry :(



Am Montag, den 30.03.2009, 19:06 +0200 schrieb b0unc3:
> however, the way nautilus do FTP is exactly the contrary that I want
> to do, for this reason I talk about simplicity and quickness.
> For example the way nautilus uses to do a simple file upload on an FTP
> Server is far away (imho) from to be quick and maybe also simple.

You've posted two screenshot mockups of your ideas, but they don't
explain how and where I set up the FTP address after clicking "FTP
Server" or where I define my Flickr account.
And what if I have more than one FTP server? "Quick uploads" also
doesn't mean much to me as a context menu item. Maybe "Upload file(s) to
a server".

Uhm... I will try to explain what's on my mind a little bit more.
Take for example an FTP upload.
The steps I want to reproduce are :
             1) select the file(s) you want to upload
             2) select "quick uploads" (or better "Upload file(s) to a server...") and choose the service
             3) insert informations (address, directory where to save and eventually the new name of the file on the server) or get it from a previous saved bookmark
             4) click ok, and you are done.
It's a nice idea, and I've wanted to do something similar in GNOME Zeitgeist (see   http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist for a long time.

I was leaning towards having a very obvious bottom-bar with different actions such as "Email to," "Print," "Upload to Flickr," etc. I think that if you put an item in the right click menu then most people will never discover it.

That's exactly true, in fact I was thinking of create a new toolbar item or something similar.
 

A few notes about implementing this in Nautilus:
1. If I understand your idea correctly, Conduit isn't really what you need. (Do you want to synchronize data or just to send it with one click?)

Yes man, you got the point. I want to make a really simple "one click" send data.
 

2. You should be able to reuse a lot of the code in Nautilus sendto. It already supports some of the things that you want to do.

I have looked at the nautilus source code some times ago. I think I can grab something from there.
 


3. Iirc, Dave Richards implemented an extremely basic Nautilus extension/script that handles some basic actions. It probably isn't at all what you need, but you might get some ideas from the GUI design that he uses.
 

-Natan




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