[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
** Description changed: This is a feature request. Let's say I want to browse to a file share on a Windows machine. Let's call the Windows machine "winbox", and the file share name "winshare". In Windows, I could simply press Start -> Run, then type this in and "Run" it: \\winbox\winshare (This opens a Windows Explorer window showing the file share.) The notation of this command above is called "UNC" ("Universal Naming Convention"). It's actually a standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Naming_Convention#Universal_Naming_Convention If I want to browse this same file share in Ubuntu, I'd Open nautilus and use URI notation instead of UNC: smb://winbox/winshare This is all fine and dandy, and I'm grateful that I can browse Windows shares whatsoever from Ubuntu. But I think it's important to take it up another notch in convenience. I think it's vital that Nautilus also be able to support the same UNC notation that works in Windows, in addition to the URI notation. Nautilus could have some simple logic that would recognize the UNC notation, and quickly convert it to URI notation, before proceeding as normal. It's pretty simple: replace all "/"'s for "\"'s, then prepend "smb:" on the front. Then continue processing that URI as normal. When the user sees the instantaneous conversion of the UNC path to a URI, they will say to themselves: "Oh, so that's the more proper way to specify that path." As they see this conversion process over and over, it will eventually teach them URI notation. It's not complicated once the user is shown the live example of how similar the notations are. This is especially important to help ease the migration of long-time Windows users who are new to Ubuntu and do not yet understand the URI notation. Also, think over how many enterprises have hundreds of internal documents that have UNC pathnames hard-coded in them that link to other internal documents (located on other file shares within the enterprise). You can bet the authors of those internal documents didn't politely list both the UNC notation, then the same link in URI notation just below for the convenience of any Ubuntu users who happen to be reading their document. Sure, OpenOffice may be able to open and decently convert MS Word .doc files, but then when the user clicks on any UNC paths to Windows file shares, they'll run into a dead end because nautilus cannot open UNC paths. If Ubuntu wants to make headway in the enterprise where Windows dominates the scene, it needs to support the notation that Windows computers use to visit each others file shares. - There is also a second part to this feature request: Once nautilus can open UNC pathnames, there also needs to be a way to associate any UNC pathname clicked on in any application to opening that UNC pathname in a spawned instance of nautilus. Perhaps this should be a configuration option in System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications. This way a user could specify Konqueror, should Konqueror gain this feature before Nautilus does. - Cheers, - -- + -- Dustin Harriman My Blog: http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/dustinharriman RSS Feed: http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-RkGSoVA1brWtXrVH9Gr5CzgVujwwGg--?cq=1 "If you know it, but then don't do it, then you don't know it." -Ajahn Sona -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 Title: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/119747/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
** Changed in: nautilus Importance: Unknown => Wishlist -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project. wishlist is a feature request so not a papercut For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project. ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: New => Invalid -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
I receive many e-mails with UNC names and I find it very VERY annoying to have to "translate" them each time. They are clickable in Evolution, but clicking on them fails because it's unsupported by Nautilus. The same applies to external network links in OpenOffice documents. This is a usability feature, just translate to smb:// when the address starts with \\, that shouldn't be hard, right? I added to 100 paper cuts because it is very annoying to users in mixed environments, like myself, trying to push for people to use Ubuntu but being slowed down by little usability features like this. ** Also affects: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
I think a simple conversion from \\foo\bar to smb://foo/bar before opening would suffice, although handling them internally would be better. -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
** Changed in: nautilus (upstream) Status: Unknown => Unconfirmed -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
Thank you for your bug. No need to open the upstream feature requests on launchpad though, the coding is done upstream mostly ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #446136 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446136 ** Also affects: nautilus (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446136 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
I also opened Gnome bug 446136 on this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446136 -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 119747] Re: UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs
The version of Konqueror in Feisty Fawn does do this UNC -> URI conversion! Sweet! Come on nautilus, time to catch up ;) The two feature requests above still stand (Nautilus converting UNC -> URI, and Preferred Applications allowing konqueror of nautilus to spawn and show UNC paths). -- UNC file share notation should also be usable, not just URIs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs