Re: [rox-devel] icons

[Thomas L. <ta...@le...>]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Garrett C wrote:

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> I was looking at a few screenies of Nautilus the other day, and I noticed
> what may be a similar feature, but extending it somewhat. Directories and
> files appeared to have extra images overlaid in some cases, to indicate
> properties such as 'draft', or 'proof-read'.  Having the ability to
> overlay specified icons on certain files/directories could be a neat
> feature.

I've been thinking for a while about having some system of storing
selections in named registers. All that would be needed then would be a
way to specify an icon for each register and that icon would be shown over
all members.

This would perhaps involve some kind of 'paint' mode where you can click
on file to toggle them in and out of the group (need some better
terminology, though!).

One nice idea would be to store these groups of files inside Choices in a
form that other utilities could parse. Then, you could have a
'to-be-deleted' group (with a big red X over each file included) and have
a cron script remove them periodically. Or, similarly, a 'to-be-archived'
group.

This would have to be post-1.0.0 though...


Thomas Leonard
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