MacFusion: a response from a Plone expert
Posted by Graham Perrin on 25 May 2007
Subject: Re: MacFusion - read-write FTP, SSH, SSHFS, SFTP and more in Finder, on your Desktop, system-wide!
Date: 25 May 2007 11:40:11 BDT
Hi Graham,
Thanks for that.
I’ve installed it, and it’s great! I also let the rest of the tech team know, and most of them have installed it too.
The ftp and ssh plugins are immediately useful for us, and I look forward to new developments.
As for your comments about Plone and Zope, they all sound very useful. I already periodically use the WebDAV interface to Zope/Plone to mount it as a local volume (try just typing the full site address into Finder’s ‘Connect to server’ box). However, a lot of this ‘directory view’ of Plone is hampered by the fact that most Plone objects are highly structured (fully-fledged objects with multiple attributes and potentially complex metadata) whereas most filesystem objects are unstructured with simple metadata.
That said, there are ‘linking’ projects like Marshall and Plone DesktopExternal Editor (proprietary, and Windows only) which have potential, as well as External Editor.
I saw a nice demo of using files with Plone from the Plone4Artists team at the recent Sprint. They connected to Plone via WebDAV as I mention above, and then dragged a folder-load of MP3 files over to the server. These then showed up in Plone as normal ‘File’ objects, but once they’d clicked the ‘convert to Audio’ button that the Plone4Artists product provides, they turned into more structured Audio objects. Once that was done, all of the ID3 data was displayed, as well quick links to play the file from the browser, stream it, or even provide it as a ‘podcast’ RSS file. You could then use the normal Plone edit tab to change some of this ID3 metadata including title, cover art image, etc.
All the best
