On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:59 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > - Enables browsing for SMB printers. When you double-click on a SMB > > printer in Nautilus, it will launch gnome-cups-add to let you configure > > the printer. > > To not have printers in the file manager / file system was very much a > design decision. In general we try very hard to only have actual file > storage objects in gnome-vfs/nautilus and avoid using gnome-vfs to show > "lists of objects". There are much better ways to display, browse and > configure printers than pretending that they are files.
Yeah this is why having a browsing metaphor sucks. Like in windows you can pretty much browse wherever and the whole file manager metaphor gets lost. Anyways, end of rant. The problem here is where would you browse for printers? From gnome-cups-manager? IF so, how would you browse it? You can't rely on gnome-vfs so I'd think you would have to duplicate smb browsing for printers, right? > > - Hides administrative shares like IPC$ and ADMIN$, while showing > > user-created shares that end in "$". > > Is this really common? It could happen on large corporate networks like mine it depends on how it's set up. If they have examples of this then perhaps it's worth looking at it? sri _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
