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. > > >
