Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Mark Knecht wrote:

> b) Most bothersome, if within Nautilus we bookmark directories on
> remote machines then every time we log in Gnome makes us type in
> passwords at login time instead of when we access the remote machine.

That's not, what happens here. I'm only prompted for the password,
when I access the remote machine.

> Worse, if the machine which is bookmarked happens to be turned off
> then we get longs delays and error messages.

That's not, what happens here.

> In all the whole Nautilus
> solution seems to be quite unremarkable at this time.

I disagree. It works quite fast and is easy to use, barring the
(as I assume) misconfiguration on your side.

> 3) Assuming this is 'fish://''
> 
> http://roo.no-ip.org/fish/screenshots.html

??

> then how is this a graphical file manager.

It isn't. Nobody said, that it is. Everybody wrote, that it is
an URL scheme for Konqueror/Krusader (both KDE).

> It seems to be a shell.

Not at all.

> I
> support it is a replacement for ssh/scp protocols

It isn't. It's an implementation for KDE, which allows it to use
SSH to transfer files. It doesn't use SCP or SFTP, as far as I
know.

Alexander Skwar
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