Re: [Usability] A file information preview system in Nautilus
- From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
- To: Jeff Fortin <nekohayo gmail com>
- Cc: GNOME usability <usability gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [Usability] A file information preview system in Nautilus
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:18:53 +0100
On 1 Jun 2008, at 15:42, Jeff Fortin wrote:
Now, why do we need this you say? Excerpts from the idea I suggested
initially: "I'm constantly switching between eye-candy
(nautilus with image thumbnails) and performance (nautilus with only
icons), and I realized the reason I switch back to "thumbnails" is
that I need to differentiate a handful files from each other, with
similar names, when I'm working on a project."
I want the best of both worlds: unobtrusive "no preview" image
icons, but thumbnailing on demand without needing to enable/disable
it system-wide all the time.
This is exactly the problem that Apple went on to solve with the
QuickLook feature in OS X Leopard... you just press Space to bring up
a medium-size preview of whatever's selected in the file manager (it
handles multiple selections nicely too), or whatever attachment is
selected in a mail message. For media files and multi-page documents,
the preview is interactive (i.e. you can scroll/page through it). For
image files, you have the option to add them straight to your iPhoto
library. And it's all extensible via plug-ins for different file types.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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