Phil Scarratt wrote:
I know nautilus allows this sort of thing,
Not sure what underlying distro you're using with LTSP, but if it's a
gnome distro then this _may_ be of use.
Thanks Phil,
but...
When I first saw Nautilus a thought it was going to be a really neat
piece of gear, but I'm so disappointed with it. I just find it unusable
and the end users don't like it either.
What my users want is a simple tool to browse their local disk, and
those of other PC's on the local lan, and then either open files by
double click or move/copy by drag and drop. Forget the skins, forget the
fancy colours and image backgrounds and other stuff, lets just do the
basics well and simply.
So far I've got XFe as the file manager and it does a great job except
it isn't smb share aware. xsmbrowser works ok to a degree but again the
layout is not exactly logical and it's not integrated with the file
browser.
Linux on the desktop using terminal server approach, it's a losing
battle with the users I'm afraid. I could of course write my own file /
network explorer, but I don't have the time nor the skill. Sometimes I
think I might just give in to the PC on each desktop mentality. Maybe
not as neat from a technology stand point, but then it's not my design
nor responsibility and it's what most users are used to.
P.
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