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

[Jeff Fortin <nekohayo gmail com>]


>     Maybe we could put all this valuable file-related info in the sidebar, when the "Information" option is displayed?  Right now I find that feature of the sidebar less than informative, and this seems like a natural kind of thing to display.
That might be a good idea, I'm ashamed I didn't even think of it (that is kind of informative on how useless the information sidebar is currently :). There is one gigantic problem though: people using the spatial nautilus. There is no toolbar, no sidebar, and nobody hears your screams there :)
(I think single-click-spatial-nautilus is the best thing since sliced bread by the way, but maybe I'm just crazy)
>     While the mock up looks nice and all, that is most defintely not how
>     compositing works.
How so? Are Affinity and Avant-Window-Navigator not able to do similar things for example?
>     This is exactly the problem that Apple went on to solve with the  
>     QuickLook feature in OS X Leopard
Interesting! While I had that idea a while back (±2 years ago), I indeed saw Leopard machines recently and stumbled upon the QuickLook feature, and was impressed by how nicely it worked. It felt natural. And then I thought "damn those cupertino's with their mind readers!"