Features request

["Nageshwar M" <whatisthis20 gmail com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm a big fan of gnome and using nautilus for long time and now, I
feel there should be some optional extra features.
I've come up with some of my ideas. If you accept any of them, I want
to participate in SoC08 and want to spend
this summer to improve nautilus.

List of the Features:
 * Integrated desktop search engines
          A search box will be placed on the right-top edge.
 * Embedded previews. [supports document viewer, gthumb viewer, totem
player, openoffice]
          The default viewers should be decided based on their loading time.
          users can also write scripts to support more views.
 * Option to remember the currently opened windows. useful at the time
of reboot.
 * Scripts should be able to create sub-menus in the right-click
context menu, so that actions
   can be easily categorized. [I don't know if nautilus already
supports this feature].
 * Pre-loading the contents of the next possible directories. Based on
the previous user behavior, nautilus
   predicts next possible directories in the user navigation and pre
loads the contents like file properties,
   thumbnails etc.,
 * Custom File Icon sizes
 * Editable file address buttons [similar to the one in vista explorer]
 * Tabbed browsing [I too don't like this option, but many people are
waiting for this]
          But I strongly recommend for a way to quickly copy files
from one place to other.
          Split screen should solve this problem, but nautilus should
have its own way!!
 * Support for custom layouts. [This feature is very complicated, but
gives a very rich look]
         layouts or nothing but similar to html pages. They supports
only some standard
          tags like <b> <p> <div> <font> <img> etc.,  users can
decorate their file browser
          as they like. There will be informative tags also.If the
user want to know the directory name,
          they can write %directoryname%. nautilus will replace it
with the present directory name.
          -- custom emblems and backgrounds are very easy if we implement this.
* Option to display the album art of the music files as their icons.
* Option for viewing and editing the ratings of the media files.
* Using sshfs, ftpfs, smbfs support, we can implement the remote file
browsing also.

These features should be optional since some users like the nautilus
for its simplicity.
Your comments/suggestions are most welcome. I'll be glad to hear from you.
-- 
Thanks,
Nageshwar M.