GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 133583
"Connect to Server" dialog: provide hints for all available URI connection methods
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Regarding the "Connect to remote server" dialog box of Nautilus, it would seem very practical for it to contain a button that would spawn a tooltip of sample pathname construction conventions. I mean, it would really improve upon the usuability for those unfamiliar with the system. Consider if a tooltip was available on this connection dialog that would provide this information: Path Specifications Available: http://server:port/full/path/to/file/or/directory ftp://username:password@hostname:port/path/to/file/or/directory smb://(SMB URL Specifications) sftp://username@hostname Further extensions: 1.) Extended URL Logic Verification 2.) Really, why should one not extend this to the special items of the VFS like CD Burning or, for example, say Compaq Ipaq VFS.
It's probably better to do this through the UI though instead of having the user type in a URI manually: such as a bunch of radio buttons for all available gnome-vfs modules e.g. ftp, dav, ssh, etc. like in putty (a ssh/telnet client). Changing the Summary to something more readable.
Discussion for this continue in bug 139105. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 139105 ***