Re: viewing images over a nautilus ftp:// url ...
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:40:28PM +0000, David A Knight wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 22:28 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > I recently discovered that nautilus can do ftp:// and probably other kind of
> > URLs, which is rather nice. I can in this way copy files easily from one
> > machine to the other. I tried then to open a bunch of jpeg files in gthumb,
> > and noticed that i failed to do that, and after closer examination, even the
> > thumbnails don't show up, nor did eog seems to work.
> >
> > Is this a bug, something strange in my configuration, or a known problem or
> > even a feature ?
>
> Thumbnails not showing for remote methods is a feature, go to the
> nautilus preferences dialog and click the preview tab if you want
> thumbnails to be created for remote files. Although it isn't a good
> idea if you browse files which aren't on your lan.
Yeah, i wonder if nautilus can be made to distinguish between your lan and the
outside world, but i guess this is not easily possible, or at least not
implemented yet.
> eog and gthumb should open the files just fine, although I've not tried
> ftp, only ssh, smb, http.
Well, using the ssh method, i can open in eog, while doing open in eog for the
ftp method never opens the eog window.
As for gthumb, both in the ftp and ssh case, it opens not with the set of
images from the directory i am browsing, but with those i opened last time on
my local disk, i guess it is a gthumb bug or something then.
nautilus/eog has not been modified yet to propose opening many selected
windows in collection mode, instead of many windows though, which makes it
less usefull in this case. Mmm, it seems that giving multiple fotos (with *)
to eog fails to open in the ssh case, while one only works.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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