I also think that if Samba is not installed, it should be removed from Nautilus folder properties and from the right click menu. I think it should be kept optional, with the packages not installed by default. These are all very easy to fix and would make Ubuntu better. I don’t think that there are many users who know that they can easily watch videos and listen to music located on the local network using the default applications: GNOME Videos and Rhythmbox. To have a great out of the box experience (it’s 2018) the GNOME Videos and Rhythmbox plugins for DLNA should be enabled by default or at least should be featured prominently to make users aware of their existence.
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Local network sharing should not require Internet access first to download the dependencies. Enabling them from Sharing downloads the missing packages and starts the server.
You seem to be asking the Ubuntu Desktop Team to take on quite a bit of work. Please elaborate on why these on-demand services should be upgraded to by-default.
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Often, the service is available to install in mere seconds on-demand, meaning it’s in the Software Center or apt-click. There are boatloads of “this-or-that service should be included by default” ideas floating out there. It seems to have nothing to do with making the service available “by-default”. I see a few bug reports here (X should pull in Y but doesn’t, A is not configured for popular use case B, M and N are not integrated with Gnome Settings).Įxample: “all sharing protocols and directories should be centralized in Settings > Sharing” is about coordination between those projects, and perhaps about several bug reports. It is not the default way of sharing files (WebDAV is) so it does not belong in Nautilus. I think Samba should be removed from Nautilus from the directory properties (Local network share) and also from the right click menu (Local network share).
There is an ongoing discussion about it, but if Samba is installed, it should show up in Settings > Sharing. With WebDAV a user can easily share the files from the Public directory and with DLNA they could also share their Videos directory (or any other media directory). I also suggest enabling the Rhythmbox Grilo media browser by default. I suggest to include rygel and grilo-plugins in the installation media in order for Media Sharing to work. The DLNA server shows in the left sidebar (maybe you need to click on the + sign and click on Check for new devices).
Rhythmbox can play music from DLNA if grilo-plugins are installed and if the Grilo media browser Rhythmbox plugin is enabled. The DLNA client for videos is GNOME Videos (or your TV) but it requires grilo-plugins-0.3-extra to be installed and by default it’s not.Īfter installing it, if there is a DLNA server on the network, it will appear in GNOME Videos in the Channels tab. If it is installed, it shows up in Settings > Sharing as Media Sharing. The DLNA server is rygel ( rygel-preferences is not needed). I suggest to include apache2 and libapache2-mod-dnssd in the installation media in order for WebDAV to work. It requires apache2 and libapache2-mod-dnssd but they are not installed by default. The default File Sharing is done via WebDAV and is shares a user’s the Public directory. So, out of the box, in Sharing there is no option to share something. Ubuntu should provide an easy way to share, out of the box.Īt the moment, in 18.04 in GNOME Settings > Sharing, the only thing that can be done out of the box is to change the computer name.
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