GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 704753
add host autocomplete to connect to server dialog
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:28:38 UTC
It might be nice to be able to autocomplete drive URLs in the connect to server dialog. We do something similar to this in the add printer dialog in GNOME. The way it could work is if I type in "192.168.1.200" into the location entry it could drop down a menu of choices that represent all the available mountable points on that server. It raises the question of why we couldn't populate network:/// with those locations in the first place but might still be useful. I'm not sure how we can do the probing exactly. Port scanning?
Created attachment 250095 [details] mockup I wasn't sure exactly what was being suggested here, so Jon produced this nice mockup for me. Seems like a great addition to me.
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