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Server tabs

Posted: 2009-12-07 00:05
by coRpSE
I am liking the new feature of the ability to connect to more then one server in a tab, but I do have a suggestion that I have seen done before in the past and made flipping through the tabs easier. The suggestion is to make the tabs colored so if you have just say, 3 connections open, one might be a light blue, the other might be a light red, and so on.

Its just a suggestions for its ease of use to quickly see the color and associations of that color to which server its associated with. I think it was Smart FTP that I originally saw the color association and it made it easier jumping from server to server and transfer files between them.

Re: Server tabs

Posted: 2012-05-12 20:41
by r_a_ven
Hi - I am new to any development on linux (I am a windows/.NET/ASPX programmer).
Since I use filezilla a lot I thought I would contribute to it. And this feature (colored tabs) seems purrfect !

The thing is - this requeest is so old, I am not sure if anyone has worked/is working on it :(
So wanted to know if this is something that is already being worked on.

PS: I am using Anjuta as the dev environment. Coming from windows background - I dont think I can use emacs.
Wonder what other people use to develop the code... Anyone?

Sunil

Re: Server tabs

Posted: 2012-05-12 20:43
by botg
I'm not aware of anyone else currently working on this feature.

My IDE of choice these days is Qt Creator. Despite its name, it can be used for non-Qt projects as well.

Re: Server tabs

Posted: 2012-05-12 23:19
by r_a_ven
Wow - I did not know that about Qt. Let me stick to anjuta for the time and lets see how it goes. The documentation on wxWidgetss is bad though :(

Re: Server tabs

Posted: 2012-05-13 02:07
by r_a_ven
Actually - let me ask you this. Anjuta does the build using the existing autotools build chain from subversion.
Does QT let you do that too?


Sunny

Re: Server tabs

Posted: 2012-05-13 11:29
by botg
Yes. As long as the Makefile has already been created, you can use it.

Re: Server tabs

Posted: 2012-05-13 23:59
by r_a_ven
Purrfect.
I was able to set the tab colors. So I know how to change the color of the tabs. Now my question is - how do you normally let features be added.
I am thinking of adding a preference for color in the Site Manager control. Users can associate color to sites (say, Red for Production site).

When users connect to it, the right tab color is used.

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r_a_ven

Re: Server tabs

Posted: 2012-05-14 09:24
by boco
Now my question is - how do you normally let features be added.
Though I'm not a developer, patches are usually delivered as source diffs. The whole feature request process takes place in the tracker, not in the forums.