On Thursday 26,November,2009 01:24 AM, Gene Caldwell wrote: > @Chow Loong Jin > > "What we don't like is people who just come in, yell about how it sucks > and all, but not provide specific exam..." > > I have no problem with that statement, and actually agree that some end > users could do a better job of expressing themselves. There does seem to > be some presumed rights on the end users expectations. However, This > still does not address the point I made, why get so lost in the details > of what the end user did wrong ? The point of this post/ bug report is > still that users are not able to share files. Its not what the user did > wrong, its what the coder did wrong. Dependencies are not being checked. > Stop telling the user he did something wrong or should have done > something different when files sharing should have worked out of the box > with no problems at all. It did not work out of the box, Thats why I > jumped in to this. Dependencies? As in nautilus-share depending on samba? Actually it does, as I mentioned in my previous post. And I didn't say that the user did something wrong, but instead I pointed the most straight-forward way you could have done it, which incidentally the average user would have chosen immediately. > > I will be the very first to jump in and say thank you for scratching > your itch and provide FREE code for this platform. However, in your > code, would you at least check to see that dependencies are met ? The original nautilus-share plugin expects that samba be installed. The nautilus-share in Ubuntu has been patched to automatically install samba, as I'd mentioned above, and before that even. > > I am not going to go back to 8.04 to see which command I HAD to run > under a terminal to get file sharing to work correctly, it did not work, > I moved on to a different release that works out of the box. Come to think of it, I only picked up nautilus-share after 8.10's release, though I'm pretty sure it did work well in the aspect PeterNZ was talking about already. For one, samba auto-installation patch was already in the nautilus-share package prior to me entering. I merely tidied it up, and fixed a segfault or two.
-- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411) Ubuntu Contributing Developer -- "share folder" does not appear https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
