Re: Using tooltips to display thumbnails

[hirumono email it]

	--------- Original Message --------
	Da: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
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	        Cc: nautilus-list gnome org
	Oggetto: Re: Using tooltips to display thumbnails
	Data: 08/01/07 16:22
	
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> 
> 
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:37 +0100, hirumono email it wrote:
> > Hi to everybody, I am a relatively new user of Ubuntu as I recently
switched
> > from Windows. I feel really at home with Nautilus, but I'd like to
suggest
> > two features that my previous Windows file manager, Directory Opus,
> > supported, hoping that the developing team will judge them useful and
maybe
> > decide to implement them into Nautilus.
> > 1) Hovering on a picture for a while could display a tooltip containing
its
> > thumbnail (the same one we see in the "Properties" dialog), to ease
> > searching and cataloging;
> > 2) When copying/moving a picture, in case of duplicate names the
respective
> > thumbnails could be showed together (maybe with file sizes), so that a
true
> > clone could be spotted at a glance.
> >  
> > These features should be fast and easy to implement, and I think they
could
> > be very useful to users.
> 
> Having a way to show more information about a file (like a thumbnail, or
> a way to preview an mp3) is something that would be nice. However, the
> popup-on-hover idea isn't imho very nice. It keeps accidentally
> triggering when you just rest the mouse somewhere, covering other icons.

I understand the problem, and though I've never been bugged by Directory
Opus' feature, I see why others could consider it an annoyance.
So, what about including the thumbnail into the context menu???

> 
> Suggestion 2 looks interesting though.
> 

I think it would make a valuable add-on to Nautilus' functionality. By the
way, the process could be extended to every type of file which can display a
preview: by now I can think about plain text/doc/HTML (first part of
document can already be included in a thumbnail) and movies. 
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