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Add fusesmb support to thunar, making network browsing easier
Status:
RESOLVED: WONTFIX
Severity:
enhancement

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Description turerkan 2008-12-26 00:56:04 CET
i know gnome and kde have their ugly solutions to network browsing, (ok thunar got itself a vfs too, i hope it doesnt get overweight). however, i think the ultimate answer lies in the *nix philosophy. everything is files, so is your network. i've been using fusesmb to mount my local network shares for quite a long time, with no problems. i even have it in my fstab.

and i have seen many comments around saying only fault of thunar is lacking of network browsing. theoretically speaking, its not thunar's concern, it's a matter of mounting your shares. however, this requires some text mode work for the time being.

so here i suggest: add fusesmb to auto-mount features already found in thunar via thunar-vfs.

here is a pseudo-phyton-code of my idea:

if smbd is not in processes:      //check thru xfce-taskmanager code? or simply ps aux?
   return
if fusesmb in mtab:
   add drive icon to thunar sidebar
   return

mount fusesmb /media/network
add drive icon to thunar sidebar
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-09-26 14:20:06 CEST
Not a Thunar issue since it uses GIO/GVFS.

Bug #4737

Reported by:
turerkan
Reported on: 2008-12-26
Last modified on: 2012-09-26

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
2 users

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