Re: Display Notes content in bubble when mouse is hover the name.

[John Keller <gnome johnkeller com>]

Nandox7 wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Pop up previews are imho a bad idea. They keep being unexpectedly
> > triggered when you're just leaving the mouse somewhere, covering the
> > things you wish to see. The long term plans we have for nautilus wrt
> > better previews etc is rather to have a separate pane for that. This has
> > been discussed previously on this list, with example screenshots etc.
>
> How will that work within the desktop area? By default there is no pane open
> there.
>
> I supposed a similar behaviour as seen in windows would be great, if the
> pointer is left for a determined amount of time over an icon it displays
> some details. Is something really handy specially for checking the size.

If checking the size is the main thing, there's already an option: set 
the first icon caption to "size" within the Display tab of the File 
Management prefs dialog. By default, it's empty, but setting it will 
show the file/folder size in the default magnification for the desktop 
and windows displaying in icon view.

- John