Re: [Usability] A file information preview system in Nautilus

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 31 May 2008, at 02:15, Long Gao wrote:

> In Windows and KDE, there are rich tooltips about a file,  and when  
> you selected a file, more detailed information is shown in a sidebar  
> in Windows.
>
> Maybe we can improve nautilus with a tooltip and a enhanced  
> information sidebar?
>
> We can even beat windows by providing a cool multimedia file preview  
> in tooltips or sidebar...

It's a feature that's been requested several times before, although I  
don't really see a bug open for it apart from this one: <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390988 
>.  Probably best to add your comments there for now...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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