Re: suggestion for FTP in nautilus

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Spider (D.M.D. Lj.) wrote:

> begin  quote
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:11:13 +0100
> Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
>
> Try doing this:
> take a picture.  drag it to the ftp window, and hold the "Alt"  key
> down. 
> Then select "Set as background"
>
>
> Does this cover what you want? 
>  
Yes, setting a background for a folder somewhat solves the problem, but 
that don't solve the whole issue.
That way the background is only set for that particular folder and not 
the child folders, letting me have to set a background for every single 
folder that contains the site (a very exsausting process if you manage a 
very large site with lots of subfolders). A solution might be to have a 
check button in the folder background choose to include subfolders, but 
that adds more settings for a new user to learn and is therefore not a 
nice solution.

> (admitted, there could be default backgrounds, but I'm not sure how that
> would be implemented.  part of a theme?  )
>
>
> //Spider
>  
A possible solution is to take a scalable version of gnome-globe, blow 
it up, put a semi-transparent layer in front of it and use that as a 
default background for ftp-windows. I belive all complete themes has the 
gnome-globe (I think so anyway, correct me if I'm wrong) and that way it 
will fit in well with the rest of their desktop.
Well, I only draw the pretty pictures and have no idea if this is 
possible. :)
- Andreas