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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 4 Jun 2008, at 14:51, Kirk Bridger wrote:

> All valid points against the tooltip approach.  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.

It's certainly one possibility.  It would also be easier to make that  
approach cope with multiple selections (a few possibilities spring to  
mind, the simplest being next/previous buttons in the preview area to  
cycle through the selected files).  In that way you could do a quick  
side-by-side comparison of selected files, which the tooltip approach  
doesn't lend itself so well to.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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