[Usability] Re: Killing Views Part 2 - The return of the Usabilty study

[Jens Finke <jens triq net>]

Hi,

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Julien Olivier wrote:
> I think Nautilus should have the possibility to show thumbnails and
> previews of files at the same time.
> 
> For example, if you are browsing a bunch of pictures, you should have a
> preview of the first picture on the top of the window and a row full of
> thumbnails of other files. Like that:
> 
>             ------------
>             |          |
>             |          |
>             |          |
>             |          |
>             ------------
> 
>        ----  ----  ----  ----
>        |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
>        ----  ----  ----  ----
> 
> The big preview should fit the size of Nautilus' window whereas
> thumbnails should have a fixed size.

Eye of Gnome >= 2.3.0 does exactly this. Choose the Image Collection View
in Nautilus if you have eog installed. Enjoy.

Best wishes,

   Jens