GnomeVFS, with a side order of Avahi!

[lathiat]

[Edit: I wonder how much hate mail I'm going to get over the KDE thing, hrm.. :)]

Thanks to Alexander Larsson, GnomeVFS HEAD now contains preliminary Avahi support!

From: Alexander Larsson
To: "avahi@lists.freedesktop.org" Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:39:48 +0200

Comments

Konqueror Java

[anonymous]

Konqueror doesn't use the Java plug-in but uses its own implementation for a Java Applet server, called KJAS.
It therefore just needs to know the "java" executable. Usually the default settings work, ut sometimes one needs to add the full path to the executable as well (Settings->configure Konqueror, Section Java&Java-Script)

avahi gnome-vfs

[anonymous]

i have been putting ssh://fileserver.local into my nautilus location bar for a while now and it works very well.

whats shiney and new about the avahi gnome-vfs thing?

this sounds exciting.

Re: avahi gnome-vfs

[lathiat]

This means you can advertise your SFTP via Avahi, and then it will appear as an icon in "network servers" whenever you are connected to that network.

So you don't need to type it in, you can just click it, or see any other servers available other than your normal ones.

Quicksilver

[ext_2025]

There's two similar things for GNOME - firstly the GNOME Launch Box which is pretty much the same, secondly the Deskbar applet which is more the universal lookup thing.

Re: Quicksilver

[lathiat]

Well, gnome-launch-box is the worlds buggiest piece of software, often freezes while keeping a lock on the desktop needing killing.

It also hasn't been updated for the new libgnome-menus

As for deskbar applet, its kinda cool, although still lacking a global shortcut key.

Re: Quicksilver

[ext_2025]

Nope; Alt+F3 focuses it. And that's configurable, even.

Re: Quicksilver

[lathiat]

That was added since :)