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Bug 733249 - Make it easy to add URLs
Make it easy to add URLs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 3.22
Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-07-16 13:33 UTC by Zeeshan Ali
Modified: 2016-03-31 13:22 UTC
See Also:
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Description Zeeshan Ali 2014-07-16 13:33:13 UTC 
Currently user need to know the syntax of URL to be able to add new spice, vnc and libvirt connections. This is very tedious for users and it would make sense for users to be able to add new boxes/connections without having to know the URL or syntax of URL even.
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2014-07-16 13:34:24 UTC 
Forgot to add that user who reported this suggested that Virt Manager has a dialog that enables you to fill in the various criteria for a URL - might be good to have something similar here.
Comment 2 Marc-Andre Lureau 2014-07-16 14:14:44 UTC 
well, people enter URL everyday you know, it's not something they are "unfamiliar" with.
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2014-07-16 14:44:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> well, people enter URL everyday you know, it's not something they are
> "unfamiliar" with.

Not with the concept of URL but not the form of each type of URL. :) If I know that I got a spice connection on host 'weirdo' on port '5555', doesn't mean I know how to turn that into a URL.
Comment 4 Zeeshan Ali 2014-10-20 18:20:22 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 711267 ***
Comment 5 Zeeshan Ali 2015-02-17 15:26:16 UTC 
Now we describe what kinds of URLs are supported and provide some examples. Besides user will typically copy&paste these URLs anyway.