Re: Gnome multimedia plan

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 21:28, Jorn Baayen wrote:

> What I would like to see in nautilus, maybe this is a bit far-fetched
> but: Browsing files by metadata: like proposed on some lists earlier,
> stuff indexed according to file type, and then display files according
> to their metadata, for example:
> An image would just be a thumbnail with filename minus extension.
> A music file would just be a music icon (with nice hover preview) with
> as name "Dream Theater - Awake" instead of "dream_theater-awake.ogg".
> etc.

It's certainly not far-fetched conceptually, Windoze Explorer already
does most of what you suggest for example.  It even superimposes a
little musical watermark on the background of folder views that contain
only music files :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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