On 1 Jun 2008, at 15:42, Jeff Fortin wrote: > Now, why do we need this you say? Excerpts from the idea I suggested > initially: "I'm constantly switching between eye-candy > (nautilus with image thumbnails) and performance (nautilus with only > icons), and I realized the reason I switch back to "thumbnails" is > that I need to differentiate a handful files from each other, with > similar names, when I'm working on a project." > > I want the best of both worlds: unobtrusive "no preview" image > icons, but thumbnailing on demand without needing to enable/disable > it system-wide all the time.
This is exactly the problem that Apple went on to solve with the QuickLook feature in OS X Leopard... you just press Space to bring up a medium-size preview of whatever's selected in the file manager (it handles multiple selections nicely too), or whatever attachment is selected in a mail message. For media files and multi-page documents, the preview is interactive (i.e. you can scroll/page through it). For image files, you have the option to add them straight to your iPhoto library. And it's all extensible via plug-ins for different file types. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
