Re: notes sidebar usefulness?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Sri Ramkrishna wrote:

> Do people find the notes sidebar on Nautilus useful at all?  I find that
> if you turn it on most of the time it's blank becuase I don't put notes
> for every file I have.
>
> I'd like to use this feature more but the current implemention feels
> clumsy for me making notes not a very useful feature for me.  The second
> thing is that ntoes only show up if you double click on the file.  I have
> to commit to opening the file and doing something with it in order to see
> the notes for it.
>
> What I would be nice is to see the notes when when I select the file and
> only when there are actually notes for a file.  The only problem is that I
> don't use the sidebar at all as it makes the nautilus window too busy
> IMHO but it would be nice to pop up the sidebar if there are notes
> available.
>
> Alternatively, if under a certain number of chars it could be pop up text
> when you highlight an icon.
>
> I just think that we could really make the notes feature a lot more useful
> than it currently is.  I think in a business environment this really could
> come in handy.
>  
Note that if you are using Nautilus-2.1.x, you can also see the notes 
for a file by right clicking on it and choosing properties.  There will 
be a "Notes" tab in the dialog showing the notes for that file.  I don't 
think there is a visible sign that a file has notes attached though, 
which is the other thing you were talking about.

James

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