The Adventures of Joshua Judson Rosen
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Thu, 19 Jun 2008
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02:12: Remote VisualIDs

Yet another interesting thing that just 'falls out' of the way that VisualIDs work: they work just as well for displays of remote data as for local data; and, because of the way that they work, generation is fast for remote files.

Here's a screenshot of VisualID-enabled Nautils browsing ftp://ftp.gnu.org/:

After looking at the previous screenshots, how quickly can you find the README file?

VisualIDs are also showing up (as if by magic) in the Nautilus 'Scripts' menu. I can't figure out how to get a screenshot of that....

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