GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 306733
Should be able to recursively set colours
Last modified: 2005-08-27 10:21:19 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Hoary Detail: 1) open up a nautilus window in spatial mode 2) Select Edit->Backgrounds and Emblems 3) Select "colors" 4) Drag a colour over to the window that was opened in 1) to change the background colour 5) Open up a sub-folder of the window opened in 1) Result: Colour of the sub-folder's window is not the same as that of the parent window. It is the default colour. Expected: Colour of the sub-folder's window is the same as the parent folder's window. In effect, the background colour change operation should be recursive, or there should be the option to apply a colour change recursively just as there is an option to apply a colour change universally or to a single window. Rationale: Coloured backgrounds are more than just a pretty toy. With Gnome VFS maturing to the point where I use it quite a bit, I'm constantly using nautilus to manage files through ssh on the servers at my school. I also run a server at home, and I use nautilus quite a bit to manage files on that. To differentiate between windows representing my local machine and windows representing servers, I use different colours. Unfortunately, the backgrounds of sub-folders of coloured server folders default to the local colour. This leaves me with two options: spend a VERY long time changing the background colours of all the sub-folders on the server (manual recurse...no fun), or have everything one colour: the local colour. Just another comment, this bug was not filed because I like pretty colours (and I do). This bug was filed immediately after I mistakenly deleted a finished copy of a project from my school's servers, instead of deleting my local cached copy. I confused the two because the folder windows both used the same icons and both had the same (local) background colour. Luckily I didn't lose TOO much work, but it could have been _very_ bad. Nautilus is a very handy tool for managing remote filesystems...it should contain facilities to ostensibly notify the user that they are working on a remote system, NOT their local one.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45889 ***