[Thunar-dev] Some UI Ideas

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Mon Mar 7 18:34:08 CET 2005


Emil Jacobs wrote:
>>>>3. The ability to easily mount and browser remote systems via SSH,
>>>>FTP, NFS, and SMB.
>>>
>>>I don't think so. Use a 'big' filemanager, like nautilus for that. That's only
>>>my personal opinion though.
>>
>>I think this is the job of a separate network browser. Maybe a similar
>>look-n-feel would be appropriate.
> 
> I disagree, I believe in the concept of network transparancy: things
> like SMB, FTP, etc don't belong to a browser like firefox, let them
> handle www, let a filemanager handle filemanagement tasks ;)
> cheers

As Auke pointed out already. We won't come up with just another VFS 
implementation for Thunar, but we'll use D-VFS once it's in a usable state.

> Emil

greets,
Benedikt



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