From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 05:04:40 EST
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > The idea is to feed this to Nautilus so that one can view the first line
> > or two of their docs in the icon displaying their docs. This way a user
> > can tell at a glance what each document is without having to open it.
> > Nautilus has this feature already for text files - I want to extend it to
> > all the files abiword can read (a LOT!)
>
> I think this is one of the most remarkably useless features in Nautilus.
I totally disagree.
>
> While a preview of the first 5 lines of file might be useful, a preview of
> so little text in an so small as space as an icon is useless and i find it
> rarely provides me with any actually useful information. On the other
> hand getting nautilus to display the Document Title or some other document
> description/metadata might actually be useful. (or maybe put this
> information into a tooltip on mouseover, or maybe make it a tab in the
> file properties dialog, ... i dunno)
>
The first line of almost every document is it's title.
> A preview in the side pane rather than in the icon would be a feature i
> would actually find useful.
>
Maybe. If it was fast enough. Mouse-over -preview would be better I agree.
> Or possibly abiword could include a preview graphic of the first/title
> page of the document. It is a nice feature to be able to say you can do
> it, i just dont beleive it is a genuinely useful feature.
Yes. This would be another use in a custom file selector dialog.
>
> > I personally would find this very useful.
>
> Im guessing you have a really huge monitor and so the text previews in
> Nautilus are not as useless on your machine.
> I would be interested to know how you find this feature usable.
>
I have lots of docs whose contents I don't know and can't guess from the
title. It would save me lots of time finding what I need if I could see
inside the document from glancing at the file manager.
> Sincerely
> Alan H.
>
>
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