Am Freitag, 9. September 2005 02:48 schrieb Markus - 3danim.de: > http://www.3danim.de/images/kde/current-previews-with-text.png
Some short notes: - The album cover idea ist nice. - larger preview on demand is already implemented: just look at the tooltip - a .desktop http:/ link w/ previews would require a running internet connection so one would have to create those previews after all others are done and deal with timeouts - videos have already a preview (since years). It seems they just don't work for your specific file(formats?) or you need to install some KDE component. - The font _is_ antialiased. it's handcrafted to make it work without being dependent on a certain font to be installed and to make sure it works well with tiny previews. antialiasing doesn't work well for tiny fonts though so I chose to only do slight antialiasing to avoid a blurry mess. > - provide means to let applications register their own preview at some > central instance; that way, whatever program is used for showing folder > contents will not need to know all the different file formats, just where > to get previews from; basically this encapsulates how previews work away > from most of the system I think it's done that way already. > - give applications full control over how previews are realized; some > applications might need bitmaps, some vector / SVG, some video, etc. I think it's done that way already. > - give applications full control over what is shown in a preview; nobody > knows better than the application itself; there could of course be > guidelines on what app-designers should put in and what not to put in I think it's done that way already. > - a file manager is only responsible for displaying whatever preview there > is registered I think it's done that way already. > - only exception is, if there is no preview registered; then either try to > create one (e.g. for simple things like images or PDFs) or show a generic > icon (worst case) > > - permit "cycling" pages for multi-page documents without opening a > separate program > - whatever page of such a document is visible (on top), stays visible > (doesn't jump back to page 1) when entering the folder a second time > - permit scaling the preview up to full-screen or near-full-screen If we don't find an intuitive non-obtrusive solution for the UI handling for those suggestions i'd rather consider these overengineered. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards, Torsten Rahn -- Dipl.-Phys. Torsten Rahn, credativ GmbH Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Str. 13, 52428 Jülich, Germany Tel.: +49 (2461) 6907-91 Fax: +49 (2461) 6907-11 Mobil: +49 (160) 7452624 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Appeal mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/appeal
