Re: Idea: Tooltip showing file properties when you hover over the file

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> > > In general it would be very nice to have a way to quickly bring up more
> > > information about a file (primarily a preview of it). However, using
> > > hovering for this is a bad idea, as it will often be in the way. You'll
> > > accidentally leave your mouse over something and it'll pop up, covering
> > > the files you're working with.
> >
> > What about showing the tooltip only if the icon is selected? This way it
> > would be way less probable to have the toolip in the way...
>
>
> But it would be much more work to get the preview displayed. A typical
> use of the preview would be scanning a set of files looking for the one
> you want by looking at the preview, and this gets complicated if its
> hard to trigger the display of it.

Wouldn't it be possible to pop up the preview to the right/left/up/down 
of the hovered icon (much like the popup context menu)?

I also think we dont need a 100% zoomed view for the preview so we could 
smartly autosize the popup window so that it fits sensibly in the 
available screen space to the right/left/top/bottom.

If Evince becomes a mutliple document viewer (docs, ooo and other 
formats) then this might also come in handy for doing the previews too 
(minus the toolbars/sidebar).

jamie.