Hello, A while ago I was involved in a discussion regarding the way Nautilus should handle Views (such as possibly killing them off). I was describing a method where upon entering a "zoom mode" nautilus would unobtrusivly generate the view in a floating window. Im not sure when, but it seems konqueror has implemented my "floating window view" idea (although it may be missing the Zoom semantics which I think is a important ui metaphor for views). Attached is a screen shot from http://dot.kde.org showing the view window. With a screen shot in hand, Id like to raise my idea again: If the user wants regular click-execute via mimi-type sematics, the user user never has to know about views -- they are effectivly dead. If the user wants "View/Zoom" semantics, the user would toggle a Magnifying glass Icon which would change the cursor to a magnifying glass, and enable View-on-Mouseover behavior. When the cursor is held over a data File, a window would appear with the corresponding data View that would behave similar to a tool-tip window -- as seen in the attachment (without the extraneous metadata Konq has). I would like to know what the senior Nautilus guys think. Cheers, Ryan
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