Ticket #523 (new enhancement)
Restore GUI browsing of course lockers
| Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | low | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | hackathon |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
| Upstream bug: |
Description
The foot menu (and Dash) had a browsable tree of course lockers (or at least the ones we knew about). Users have been overhead discussing the lack of GUI access to course lockers on Debathena. In keeping with a goal of "you shouldn't have to use the Terminal", we should design some sort of rudimentary UI for this and put it on the Desktop or ideally in the Places menu. It can be as simple as:
gnome-open /mit/zenity --entry --text="What locker would you like to open?"
albeit with a more error checking, obviously.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
- Keywords hackathon added
- Milestone changed from Summer 2010 (Lucid Deploy) to Fall 2010
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by jdreed
We should also offer an option to add the locker to your .gtk-bookmarks (and thus your Places menu). I could possibly be convinced that this is not necessary and retraining users is the right answer, but it's a minimal investment.
comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed
So, Nautilus has LocationWidgetProvider?, which allows you throw things up at the top of browser windows (though below Nautilus' own toolbar). I would not be opposed to adding an "MIT Toolbar" that perhaps had "Open a locker" "Go to my www" "Go to my Public", etc. Users could easily skip this by setting an environment variable, and obviously it would take into account things like whether you even have AFS, or whether your homedir is in AFS or whatever.
Argh, stupid wiki formatting