"Connect to a server" menuitem seems to not work

[Alban Crequy]

I click on "Connect to a server" in the "shortcuts" Gnome menu and then I fillfull the form and click on "Connect".

And I wait but nothing happen: no window explain me the connection has failed. And a long time after, I realized that an icon has been added on the desktop. I cannot see it sooner because others windows hide it.

And I realized that the aim of this form is not to connect to a server but to add a shortcut on the desktop.

I suggest the following:
 - The button name of the form must not be called "Connect" because it does not connect when I click on it. Call it for example "Add the shortcut on the desktop".
 - When the user click on this button, show a little dialog window explaining: "An icon shortcut has been successfully added on your desktop. You can see it if you hide all others windows". Without this explanation, how can the user know that the form just does not work?

I use GNOME 2.12.1 with Ubuntu 5.10.

[Vincent Untz (vuntz)]

This is a nautilus issue (the "connect to server" item launches a binary coming with nautilus).

I thought it also opened the folder. Weird. Should probably be forwarded upstream.

[Lakin Wecker (lakin)]

Per my comments on the upstream bug, this is mostly fixed in dapper. You are presented either with a folder or an error message. Quite often, however, this takes quite a few seconds and there is no feedback during this process.

As such I'm marking this confirmed and wishlist until we see what happens with the upstream bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

nautilus task is enough

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

I submitted a similar bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/120220 - "'Connect to server' have minimal dialogues - Needs to communicate more"

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

I do believe this has been fixed in Nautilus 2.22 as that "Connect to Server" dialog had a major re-write. Can we mark it as so?

[Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount)]

This was fixed in Nautilus 2.22