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[Apollyon <apollyon@xxxxxxxxx>]

They don't really have to reinvent the wheel here or anything, just use 
Nautilus interface for CD-burning.  If you haven't used it before, it 
pops up when you insert a blank-CD or DVD and you can drag-n-drop 
folders and files on it (which are obviously not then moved there).  
Once done you burn the CD - before that it looks and acts like a 
directory (its what I expected when I first used UbuntuOne and then 
found I'd "lost" some documents).

I think UbuntuOne is already exploring using symlinks too which will be 
nice as I'd like to have certain directories continuously uploaded (or 
synced) with the server without having to continue to drag-n-drop them 
in the UbuntuOne folder.  If I can keep a symlink there to my documents 
then hopefully as those documents change, they will be uploaded...



On 09-09-25 02:53 PM, S B Malevich wrote:
> 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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