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[S B Malevich <sbmalev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Could this behavior be an option in a preference menu?

I, personally, don't think that this mount/unmount method (ala iDisk) is
particularly intuitive. I'm not mounting a remote disk, and so, it
shouldn't behave as though I was. I don't see how this way is "better".

Keep it simple.


-----Original Message-----
From: Forrest Sheng Bao <forrest.bao@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ubuntuone-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ubuntuone-users] Drag-and-drop from Ubuntu One folder
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:31:18 -0500

I think, in one word, things should be as easy as iDisk on Mac OS X. In
iDisk, Mac OS X treats your folder on MobileMe remote server as a disk
and makes you access remote files like you access files on local
harddrive. I think NFS also made this years ago. This is a must-have of
Ubuntu One. If one thing is not convinient and intuitive to do, users
will give up your products. 

Cheers,
Forrest

Forrest Sheng Bao, BSEE, Graduate Student
Dept. of Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University
http://narnia.cs.ttu.edu
Sent from Lubbock, TX, United States 

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, S B Malevich <sbmalev@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
        I'm with popey on this one.
        
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Alan Pope <alan@xxxxxxxxx>
        To: Andrew Yeomans <ajv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
        Cc: ubuntuone-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: Re: [Ubuntuone-users] Drag-and-drop from Ubuntu One
        folder
        Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:51:26 +0100
        
        Hi,
        
        2009/9/25 Andrew Yeomans <ajv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
        > Maybe I'm in a minority, but my expectation is that the Ubuntu
        One folder
        > should act in a similar way to a mounted drive.
        >
        > By this I mean that performing a drag-and-drop operation from
        or to another
        > "normal" file system folder would result in a COPY of the
        file, rather than
        > a MOVE of the file.
        >
        
        That's not how I'd like it. It's a folder on my system so it
        should
        act just like a folder. Dragging to it moves from local disk,
        copies
        from remote disk. Ubuntu One isn't like an sshfs mounted chunk
        of
        space, it's just a folder which happens to have some magic that
        syncs
        it to the cloud.
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