`thumbnails' for folders (was: Feature request)

[Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin geekspace com>]

"natan yellin" <aantny gmail com> writes:

> -Natan On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Yuzem <yuzem3 gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hello, I would like to know if this idea
> > <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16240/> can be
> > implemented. There are some screenshots to illustrate it. As it
> > says there, it should be very easy to implement since it uses the
> > same mechanism of file thumbnailing.
>
> There was a discussion about something similar a few months back.
> See http://theesylum.com/2008/09/25/making-icons-more-useful/

Here's another idea, of a somewhat different sort:

    http://scribblethink.org/Work/VisualIDs/visualids.html

I think that they've identified the heart of the problem, and
developed a solution, pretty brilliantly.

What do you think?

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