Calum Benson wrote:
> You're right that they "can", and while that probably does write it off, 
> I wonder how many really do.  (And we could possibly do something clever 
> like a semi-opaque overlay anyway, we may not have to replace the 
> background entirely.)

Almost everyone I've seen using the filemanager other than myself has 
done this :-)

If you do a semi-opaque overlay thats going to require lots of colour 
selection stuff - plus what if the background is a complex image (why 
people do this I don't know but I've seen it done).

>> An emblem is good for the case where you are looking from "above" a 
>> dataset that is tagged for backup.
>>
>> An indicator in the status bar is good for when you are "in" a dataset 
>> that is tagged for backup.
> 
> Yep, all true.  Also need to bear in mind that nowadays, with the 
> (fairly) new nautilus treeview, you can potentially see both "in" and 
> "above" at the same time, so any solution would have to work elegantly 
> with that view too.

I would expect emblem in the tree and status bar indicator for the non 
tree part.

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Darren J Moffat
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