I also think that using a small decent overlay would be the ideal solution.
That way we inform people about a problem but dont break the worflow 
with a popup
message he cant even to something about.
Arne

PCMan schrieb:
> Maybe a notification sent to notification daemon or systray balloon
> popup can do it?
> Anyways popup error dialogs is not a good idea. A transient error
> message displayed over the image like an OSD for several seconds might
> be good, I think.
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Martin Bagge<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Marty Jack wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Do the other viewers you mentioned put up that info box or do they silently 
>>> ignore the file?
>>>       
>> iirc they just skip. My usability principles are a bit rusty but I think
>> it's better to let the user know that a file was skipped if we can do
>> that. Opening a directory with the intension to view all files and just
>> one shows could be a bit awkward. I am not sure what path would be the
>> best here, as long as it's not the ugly error box we have now I think we
>> are close =)
>>
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