Thunar ftp/smb plugin

[Stefan Stuhr]

ons, 27 09 2006 kl. 10:41 -0700, skrev Auke Kok:
> To retaliate, I have added a FAQ entry describing the problem on the wiki. 
> Please refer everyone to this:
> 
> http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/faq
> 
> 
> summary:
> 
> ============
> When will it support samba/network browsing?
> 
> It already does! Just mount your shares and go to them with Thunar! Just kidding.
> 
> You are obviously asking about Thunar being able to discover remote machines on 
> a network and mount/unmount shares from them. What you are asking for is nice, 
> but there is no common framework for it yet that Thunar can build on.
> 
> Thunar is designed to be a file manager, not a network file system manager. 
> Once such a beast exists, Thunar and all other applications will be able to use 
> it, and you can browse your samba or NFS shares in firefox or emacs, whatever.
> 
> Short answer: not any time soon unless you write it yourself.

Or maybe unless the GNOME developers write a gnome-vfs replacement on
glib level:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2006-September/msg00023.html

That is, if Benny would even want to use it in Thunar.

I, personally, like Thunar in its current form. But on the other hand, I
would probably use Thunar as an FTP client *if* it was integrated in a
nice way.

> Cheers,
> 
> Auke

Stefan