Re: Some Ideas about Previewing and Multiple Media handling in Nautilus [was: Killing Views Part 2 ... ]

[Shaun McCance <shaunm wolfram com>]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:55, Alan wrote:
> > there's no need to reinvent this... Second, while I'd love for the
> > preview to be "tethered" to the file in question, how do you propose to
> > do this? The sidebar of Nautilus is probably too small and has other
> > uses besides preview that we don't want to preclude (e.g. tree). A
> > tooltip would obfuscate the rest of your Nautilus window.
> 
> Sounds like gtk needs os/x "drawers" :)  

Funny you should mention that.  I've just been playing around with
implementing these today.  My approach is to use _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE,
and set it to a new value, _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DRAWER.  It's just a fun
little hack I've been playing with.  If there's interest, I can post it
somewhere when it works.

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Shaun