Re: [Usability] Display file notes easily

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Jun 17, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> ...
> On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 15:31 +0200, Amaury Chamayou wrote:
> > ...
> > I found myself using the ability of adding notes to files trough
> > Nautilus to give some meaning to files that had otherwise
> > non-descriptive filenames (because they had to be easily accessible
> > from a program but that's not the point), and I thought it would be
> > very nice if Nautilus could display at least the first few words of a
> > note below the filename, just like it can do with the date, or
> > permissions etc.

For text files, Nautilus already does this in the icon itself. What 
type of files were these?

> ...
> Really bad mockup
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/82286015 N00/559637955/
> ...

That raises an interesting idea. If a music file contains embedded 
album art, the file's icon could be based on that art. That would be 
much more useful than a folder full of identical musical-note icons.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/