[haiku] Re: Network transfer, one Haiku machine to another ?

Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yes this would be cool. E.g. I like the way kio slaves works under 
> > KDE. 
> > You just tip the adresse (webdavs://, ftp:// , fish://, ...) into 
> > the 
> > konqueror and you can handle the remote files like local files!
> That's certainly cool, but not what I would have in mind for the 
> "casual 
> user" or actually myself. For example, I know my girlfriends computer 
> is 
> turned on and there certainly is "some" shared folder. What I want is 
> some "window" integrated in Tracker which shows me her computer. Then 
> I 
> want to double click on that icon and get another window with all her 
> shared folders. I do this so seldomly, I don't remember the hostname 
> of 
> her computer, let alone the locations of shared folders. The other 
> day, 
> I had exactly this situation. In Ubuntu, I went to Network, was 
> relieved 
> to just see her computer name, double clicked it and then I found out 
> that MacOS-X offers a folder "DropBox". I didn't even know about this 
> before. As "advanced user", I know the protocol would probably be 
> "afp://", but ...? This is the level of integration I would want as a 
> baseline. The ability to type something into an address bar would be 
> a 
> bonus feature, not the main access to network volumes.

Besides, it shouldn't only be a Tracker thing, but done via a file 
system, so that it's available from everywhere.

Bye,
   Axel.

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