Seriously folks

[George Farris]

On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 17:35 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 5 April 2013 17:25, George Farris <farrisga at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Connect to server  - OK right here things begin to break, Nautilus used
> > to ask what kind of connection now, who fing knows what kind of
> > connections it will handle or even what the syntax is.  Fail!
> 
> That's a complicated problem. Here's the original GNOME bug for the
> redesign (pay particular attention to the final paragraph of the
> original report):
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682637

Seriously, why do you think we are running Linux, because we want to be
better than that but that's a discussion for another day.
> 
> Perhaps it needs a help button pointing to
> https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/nautilus-connect.html
> 

Which un-complicates the problem, sadly discoverablity doesn't seem to
be front and center.

> > Now once connected try go back a folder,  yup you can't do it from the
> > GUI can you...? Fail!
> 
> Uh, the back arrow button works fine here.
> 

No it doesn't work.  If you end up in /home/user on the remote machine,
on first connect, try go up a folder to /home.  If you hit the back
button you go back to your local file system.  It's a Fail!

> Anyway, the Ubuntu GNOME project exists to ship a relatively pure
> GNOME on the popular Ubuntu platform. If you disagree with GNOME
> design, the place to address that is to GNOME directly, not to us.
> 

Well I agree mostly with you although it's going to reflect badly on the
Ubuntu Gnome project no matter what because that's just the way the net
works:-)  

I do, however, understand the pure GNOME thing.  It's looking like pure
GNOME is to go through yet another round of bashing.  You'd think 3 or
so years of users complaining and pointing out major regressions would
finally sink in but....  It seems to be 

I recently had one of the GNOME project team ask me why I would want to
allow an administrator of the machine to add groups to a user.
Seriously, a major feature of the operating system and he could figure
that out, sad.

George