Re: [Nautilus-list] font tweaking preferences vs metadata

[Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>]

> Let me re-word your question:
> 
> You are asking if we want to be able to tweak the fonts on a per-directory
> basis as well as setting them as a global preference in Nautilus.
> 
> (The metadata is just the mechanism for storing a per-directory preference.)
> 
> I think this might be a useful feature, but we still want preferences
> program-wide for the default font setting. A missing feature right now is a
> way to set a default program-wide for the background colors and such; the
> default is currently hard-coded.
> 
> I don't think we need the feature (custom font for each directory) for
> Nautilus 1.0.

I agree - this is not necessarily a Nautilus 1.0 thing (to have custom 
fonr for each directory). But it would be interesting to note that EFM 
(competing 'shell/file manager'?) has that sort of thing going. The 
cooler thing about EFM is you can drag and drop fonts and have the 
directory take on that font :) That of course, would be cool for Nautilus 
as well (especially if we can use TTF and drag them around and stuff).

My vote is, make it a post-1.0 feature (there is way too much stuff 
already needed for 1.0).