GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170619
Nautilus doesn't show comments of SMB hosts and shares in smb://
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:29:27 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/7208 "Samba ship a variable comment for hosts and shares, The gnome share-admin allow people to define a comment in the share properties dialog. But i do not find where it is shown in nautilus. If you open the property dialog of a share of a host, you see in the link tab an empty field : Comment (Commentaire in french). So, This is a tiny enhancement, but very helpfull in numerous and heterogen network."
I do confirm this behaviour, I can't find a way to show the comment. Windows can have comments don't use it but shows it, linux (samba) usually use comments, but nautilus don't show it anywhere.
(restoring version info)
Seems like GVFS puts the comment in the "smb::comment" attribute. But it isn't clear to me where we would display this in Nautilus. I guess the places it would be most useful are the network:// browsing and the connect to server dialog.
FWIW, Windows displays the comment by default as the main label in Explorer. If the comment is different than the SMB host name then it is displayed like this: SMB Comment (Host name) This is obviously a philosophy thing. If Nautilus is strictly a file based approach, rather than Explorers "browse information" approach, then we may want to display the comment less prominently than Explorer does. In addition to the places Jon suggests, would we want to display this as another optional column, selectable in 'Visible Columns'?
Do you have any examples of how people use this comment field? In particular, wondering if it is name-like or sentence-like.
Created attachment 222545 [details] Computer description screenshot It's usually a short phrase. You can see it in this screenshot. The windows dialog gives some examples. It's called the 'Computer Description'.
Ok, so it seems like we could be using it for the display name field?
*** Bug 626766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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