Re: Full-URI in window title?

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Kevin C. Krinke wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:11, Raul Acevedo wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 10:59 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:12 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > In nautilus 2.8.0 the windows would have "me on someserver" resp. "me"
> > > > for the local folder as title, so as long as they are on different
> > > > servers you can easily distinguish them.
> > >
> > > And since in spatial mode you can only have one window open to a
> > > particular folder on a particular server, you will always be able to
> > > distinguish them.
> >
> > Actually, no.  That's one of the reasons I stopped using spatial.  I can
> > have three "foo" windows open at the same time, and without looking
> > carefully at the contents or clicking on the lower left button to see
> > the hierarchy, I can't tell which is which.  Me "remembering" which one
> > was last opened at what position is not useful.
>
>
> If you have three directories /etc, /opt/etc and /usr/local/etc and have
> them all open then yes you will have three spatial views labeled 'etc',
> however what Davyd was indicating was that you can't have one directory
> /etc opened in two different spatial windows. Nautilus raises the first
> one when you try and open it again (which is a beautiful spatial thing).
>
>
> > I think having the full URI in the title would be very useful.
>
>
> I don't think the *full* uri would be very nice to look at (personally I
> think seeing file://bleh or ssh://foo is just ugly and not something I'd
> want to force Aunt Tulip to work with) but I do agree something needs to
> distinguish different directories with the same name. Perhaps just
> enough parent folders included in the name would be good. So for the
> above /etc, /opt/etc and /usr/local/etc you'd have one titled "etc", the
> second "opt/etc" and the third would be "local/etc".
>
> I think that solution would be much easier on the eyes and still give
> the title distinction we're looking for.
What about only doing that if there is more then one window open with 
the same name

Jaap