Hi, Am Samstag, den 20.11.2004, 13:11 +0100 schrieb Andreas Nilsson: > Hello there, I'm new to this list, so don't shoot me if this has been > suggested before. > I recently discovered the FTP abilities of Nautilus and once I managed > to connect to my webserver (that was a bit hard in itself, but maybe I > get back on that one some other time) it has been a really nice experience. > I have one small problem though. Since I often manage a lot of websites, > I often have similar directory structures in both my home folder and on > the webserver. I often run into the problem of not knowing which of the > folders one is on my computer and which is on the webserver and often I > drag files from the wrong folder and instead of uploading a new file, I > download an old one. > I thought about this and came up with a solution of the problem and made > a mockup. > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/nautilus_ftpmockup.png > As you can see in the mockup, the folder on the server has a globe in > the background. Pehaps an svg image would be suitable, so it can scale > when the user changes the size of the window. > > Yes, this is the eye-candy approach, the lesser exciting way to do this > is to put the text foldername host domain in the window list, but > displaying the image in the back makes it really fast to see where the > folder is located. So open the ftp folder, go to Edit->Backgrounds and Emblems and drag some background from the dialog onto the folder (in icon view). From now on it will show up as you wished. cheers, Danny -- www.keyserver.net key id A334AEA6
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