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Re: gnome-vfs-sftp



On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:52:03AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
> When you drag a file from one window to another, the target window
> receives a path/filename. In order for "remote nautilus" to know how to
> retrieve a file on the local machine, "local nautilus" would have to
> send it a URI, but how does it know what the URI should be? 

What about automatically resort to the sftp://? Say, copying from local 
to remote, the remote nautilus would accept whatever path it gets, and 
then add sftp://sourcehost in the beginning of the path.

> I suppose the solution to that problem would be for drag and drop to use
> some sort of X-provided IPC protocol to send the actual file data
> between the windows, 

Question is, does Gnome support drag&drop protocol on different hosts? 
Or does X, as the underlying plumbing?

> FWIW, even Citrix, which operates in a much more controlled environment,
> doesn't let you drag-n-drop files in that fashion.

Well, I believe that fact shouldn't stop you from (imagining) having a 
neater environment on X.

Oki




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