Re: Nautilus View / Listeners compared with Windows Namespace extension questions

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 11:30, Mads Villadsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 11:17, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > So, really we want people to sort of ignore views, at least for
> > directories, and tell us what sort of extensions they want to do of the
> > standard directory views.
> 
> This is possibly the best new feature I have heard of. This will make it
> so much easier to add functionality to Nautilus. Thanks a bunch.
> 
> Here are the few things I could think of for extensions:
> * Add icon captions (for possible display of inline exif information)

Yeah. We want some way to allow you to add "metadata" for files that can
be shown as columns in the list view and in captions for the icon view.

> * Take over thumbnailing (so as to generate better quality thumbnails
> for larger icons).

Hmm, not sure what you mean by this? If you think the Nautilus
thumbnailing is bad, shouldn't we just fixing it? I'm don't get this
point.

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