Seriously folks

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 5 April 2013 18:13, George Farris <farrisga at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Seriously, could you seriously stop using the word seriously?

>> 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.

Anyway, subscribe to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697394
and let's see what happens. Maybe next time you can report the bug?

>> > 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!

Pressing the Back button does *exactly* what I'd expect it to do. If
it's not working, please file a bug with step by step instructions for
how it's not working. Oh and please stop using the word "Fail" too. :)

> 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

This is definitely not the right place for GNOME bashing.

> 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.

I agree with GNOME. I think for most users of most computers, a simple
two-level system of User or Admin makes the most sense. Sysadmins that
need more fine-grained control can use the appropriate command line
tools or try gnome-system-tools if he needs a GUI.

Thanks,
Jeremy