[Thunar-dev] future thunar plans?

[Jani Monoses]

> I'm still not convinced that doing SMB as part of the file manager is a
> pretty good idea. Personally, I'm still in favour of a separate "Network
> Browser" (properly integrated with Thunar and the rest of Xfce), that
> does SMB, NFS, SCP, etc., utilizing Avahi/Howl.

Does using Avahi in the client not mean that services need to be 
explicitely advertised using the zeroconf protocols by the other 
machines on the network? Would it work with legacy windows boxes for 
example?