> 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. 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) A preview in the side pane rather than in the icon would be a feature i would actually find useful. 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. > 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. Sincerely Alan H.
