On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 19:19 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: > Now ... how can I accomplish my (seemingly simple) goal of having > icons stored neatly somewhere of my choosing, that would serve as > shortcuts to storage that I infrequently enough use that I may not > remember ip/dns names, etc ...? > > Suggestions? Am I missing something obvious? I don't know of any way to do it.. seems like another case where we've taken inspiration from a feature from OS X (mounted volumes appearing on the desktop and in the Computer view, and disappearing again when you unmount them), but overlooked the parts that make it truly useful :/ Namely, in OS X, you can create icons that are aliases/links to volumes while they're mounted, and file those aliases anywhere you like. After you've unmounted the volume, double-clicking its alias icon will authenticate if required and re-mount it, before opening its file manager window. Also, the 'connect to server' dialog in OS X lists both your recent and favourite connections, so most of the time it's convenient just to use that rather than creating any aliases at all. GNOME's Connect to Server dialog doesn't even remember the last values you entered, which is pretty frustrating as most of the time I personally just want to connect to the same server I connected to last time :/ I'd suggest filing an enhancement bug if there isn't one there already :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson@xxxxxxx GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
