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Web Design Fun..
Gnome rocks.
Here's how I edit my website nowadays. The left sidebar on my Firefox browser is the awesome web developer extension - I can edit the page CSS stylesheet on the fly:

Once I am happy with it, I save the stylesheet to my desktop, and drag it to Nautilus which shows the contents of my website with the ssh:// -method:

Nice.



September 8th, 2004 - 11:54
I do exactly the same! Webdeveloper and Gnome-vfs rocks… It is a pure pleasure to do all this with drag & drop
September 8th, 2004 - 12:03
Is the Nautilus window very small because Nautilus does that annoying thing of not hiding passwords in the location bar?
I wish the Nautilus guys would fix that.
September 8th, 2004 - 12:09
No, it is small just to save space on the page – I did not want to scale the pixels too small. Nautilus now has a password dialog that handles those (plus a keyring that can store your passwords if you want to do that) – stuff is really coming together..
September 8th, 2004 - 12:34
Is this 2.8? I’m using 2.6 and I still cant get it to work with password authentication (public key method works)
September 8th, 2004 - 12:57
Good point. I have currently 2.6 and ssh-agent which handles the auth for me. I think the keyring stuff is in 2.8, but I am not completely sure. Also try sftp:// if your remote host has it enabled – it should work better with passwords even in 2.6.
September 8th, 2004 - 13:29
I upload my webpage this way, too, using Gnome 2.6. Before this, it was just too much effort to upload anything. These days, it’s so convenient I do it all the time.
It’s 10x better than 2.4 was, but it’s still not quite perfect. If you take more than a couple seconds typing in your password, it throws another dialog at you that says “Click cancel to stop opening” or something. And it never remembers my password, even if I click the checkbox. (I saw a fix fly by on one of the lists recently for the former problem, so 2.8 should work great.)
It *is* nice.
September 8th, 2004 - 13:40
nice – but how do i authenticate to my good old ftp server using gnome? i still stumble across one bug after the other. the most annoying of course the display of the username/password in the window title. regular expressions anyone?
September 8th, 2004 - 14:20
smoke: You should file bugs if you havent, and discuss with the developers – I am not one of the people who can help with issues in the code
September 9th, 2004 - 07:00
smoke: try “sftp://”. I don’t think it’s documented anywhere. (I only know because I’d heard that it was possible, so I went on a big web searching spree. Took forever to find.)
Gnome probably has about 3 times as many features as anybody realizes. It’s just that they’re not documented, so nobody knows.
September 9th, 2004 - 19:02
I have always wondered what distro you used if at all Tigert? Please share…
September 9th, 2004 - 21:51
What’s the background image in your screenie?
//k
September 10th, 2004 - 11:14
Yeah, now it would be nice to save directly from Firefox to sftp:// without the desktop step
September 10th, 2004 - 12:09
Zygar: I use SuSE right now, for obvious reasons. I also use Debian on the server and firewall machines, I used LinuxPPC on the apple powerbook in the past, then Debian/PPC, also I have used Red Hat from 3 up until 9.. also a bit of Fedora.. My first Linux distro was Slackware in 1995 or so.
Gentoo is a distro I have not used..