On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Martin Sevior wrote: > > > > 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. > > Except for letters, which are my main use for Abiword at the > moment. > True enough but don't forget that AbiSniff would also read html, doc, rtf, wpd, Star Office, Applix, psion, palm, kword and all XML based file formats.
I can see Alans point about text icons being too small though. Maybe a popup window containing the text during mouse overs. This sort of stuff would have to get approved by the Nautilus maintainers though. They're very interested in keeping a clean design. Cheers Martin
