desktop share icons / gnome-vfs

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 20:46:01 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 20:34 +0000, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> All,
> 
> What exactly is the correctly technical way to describe the share icons that are
> created on your desktop by the "Connect to Server" menu option?  Is this part of
> gnome-vfs?

You call them remote volumes.  Yes it is part of gnome-vfs. 

> I have a smb share setup as an icon on my desktop (presumably through
> nautilus-connect-server), but some programs see it and some don't.  For example,
> I am using gtkpod to load files onto my ipod, and when I try to import files, it
> doesn't see this share.  Other programs that use the gtk chooser *do* see it.

I'm guessing gtkpod doesn't use gnome-vfs (or they would most likely be
using the chooser).  
  
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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>




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