Re: Nautilus View / Listeners compared with Windows Namespace extension questions

[Mads Villadsen <maxx krakoa dk>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 13:36, Julien Olivier wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand what you want to do but I guess that, if you
> need bigger pictures than 256x256, what you really need is a true
> picture viewer (not a thumbnails generator). Thus, the best way to do it
> would be to embed a view like EOG or gthumb do.

But they do not provide all the functionality of the icon view - I was
trying to think of things that I might want to do with new extension
system, and this was an idea.

Another idea that would require control over the thumbnails would be tow
play movies and animated gifs on mouseover (but that is definitely
crack).

Or it could be nice to be able to give an idea about the content, size,
age, etc. of folder by altering their icon (bulge, cobwebs, ...).

I am trying to come up with some ideas that might be worth looking into
(or they might now), but which hasn't really been feasible previously
due to the heavy nature of nautilus views.

Phew... That was a long rant.

All in all this is not to be taken too seriously. I am just trying to
find areas of the nautilus that may be worth making extendable.

> And yes: you need to be on crack if you really want to have "thumbnails"
> larger than 256x256 :)

Then let's call them "more accurate previews" ;-)