Hello On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:00 +0530, Nageshwar M wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm a big fan of gnome and using nautilus for long time and now, I > feel there should be some optional extra features. > I've come up with some of my ideas. If you accept any of them, I want > to participate in SoC08 and want to spend > this summer to improve nautilus. > > List of the Features: > * Integrated desktop search engines > A search box will be placed on the right-top edge. deskbar is what you are probably looking for.
> * Embedded previews. [supports document viewer, gthumb viewer, totem > player, openoffice] > The default viewers should be decided based on their loading time. > users can also write scripts to support more views. > * Option to remember the currently opened windows. useful at the time > of reboot. Save session when existing gnome desktop, and this should work. > * Scripts should be able to create sub-menus in the right-click > context menu, so that actions > can be easily categorized. [I don't know if nautilus already > supports this feature]. > * Pre-loading the contents of the next possible directories. Based on > the previous user behavior, nautilus > predicts next possible directories in the user navigation and pre > loads the contents like file properties, > thumbnails etc., > * Custom File Icon sizes > * Editable file address buttons [similar to the one in vista explorer] > * Tabbed browsing [I too don't like this option, but many people are > waiting for this] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48034 > But I strongly recommend for a way to quickly copy files > from one place to other. > Split screen should solve this problem, but nautilus should > have its own way!! > * Support for custom layouts. [This feature is very complicated, but > gives a very rich look] > layouts or nothing but similar to html pages. They supports > only some standard > tags like <b> <p> <div> <font> <img> etc., users can > decorate their file browser > as they like. There will be informative tags also.If the > user want to know the directory name, > they can write %directoryname%. nautilus will replace it > with the present directory name. > -- custom emblems and backgrounds are very easy if we implement > this. > * Option to display the album art of the music files as their icons. > * Option for viewing and editing the ratings of the media files. > * Using sshfs, ftpfs, smbfs support, we can implement the remote file > browsing also. nautilus does this, atleast in the last stable version. GIO backend has a few problem which developers are trying to sort out. http://live.gnome.org/GioToDo > > These features should be optional since some users like the nautilus > for its simplicity. > Your comments/suggestions are most welcome. I'll be glad to hear from you. > -- > Thanks, > Nageshwar M. -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Desktop LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
