On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:33:33PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > 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. Yes, but having a default background for ftp/dav/sftp/etc would give some nice visual feedback that the window you're dealing with is remote. It can be done on a per-window basis of course, but that's not very user friendly :) -- Alan <alan ufies org> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike
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