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Feature Request: host information in Drive Manager
I have duplicate entries of many drives so I can mount them fast using local IP when I am on a LAN, and using external address when I am away from the machines (must have the same name to be transparent for things like iTunes/Boxee/Front Row). So my Drive Manager has many pairs of apparently identical drives. There is lots of unused whitespace next to each drive name, and I would like to see some additional information about the drives in that space, like hostname, etc.
I can easily handle my usual swapping in/out with the applescript support, but sometimes I want to use the Drive Manager to do this, and I have to open the Edit panel to determine which one I want, which is less than ideal.
even just the hostname would be enough for me, but I can see username or other things being useful to others.
-MinRK
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Inappropriate?We've got the code for this sketched out. With a bunch of drives, it ends up looking pretty noisy. Any thoughts?
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Inappropriate?Since it would be extra information, and probably most users do not have duplicate drives, maybe it should be optional, and default off. Normally, I only have 2 of each for internal and external, but currently, with testing the beta of sftpv2, I have 3-4 of each - which is getting confusing.
I suppose it would also be enough information if I just sorted the list (easier if I don't have to drag around manually, but technically possible now), so that I could know the external.ip version comes before/after the 192.x.x.x version.
Another alternative could be to check for duplicate drive names, and only display the extra information on drives that have a twin. That way, the extra info would only appear when it could be useful. If you do that, then you could display just the delta, rather than the whole:
sftpv2:user@host:port:/path
so a list could look like:
S3
iPhone
media - host:192.168.1.1
media - host:external.ip
myserver
server - u:minrk
server - u:jeffm
etc...
I think I would go with having this be an option where you can choose either no extra info, info on all, or delta on twins, with the last being the default. Then nobody would get clutter unless they had indistinguishable drives (like me) or specifically asked for it.
I also think in the drive manager, having the extra info be in a relatively low-contrast gray would at least reduce the sense of clutter when you aren't looking for it.
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