On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 03:23:02PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:40:51PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Whilst I was hoping for some debate and discussion on FS UI's and such, it's
> > always good to solve a few troubles along the way... :)
>
> Nautilus looks as though it has some really nice features. It
> didn't take long for Mac OS-X's "thumbnail for document icon"
> idea to propagate, did it?
i was just thinking about the thumbnails, and was about to flame the
idea.. i'll back off a bit and actually ask questions then ;)
other than for images, what use is such a small view of a document?
(and what do you do for, eg: sound files?)
even in nautilus (at least in those screenshots i just looked at) you
have to zoom massively, just to get a very unhelpful view of part of a
text document. would you really search for a file this way?
how is the thumbnail generation done? is it cached, or recrunched
after every directory change? for complicated formats (eg: word doc or
postscript) generating thumbnails has to hurt.
i question whether the thumbnails add anything, beyond making all your
text files look the same (from any practical distance)
(nautilus isn't very conservative of screen space, is it.. useless,
huge (tho nicely shaded) panel on the left. large icons packed very
innefficiently, with file details in a hard to "visually grep"
layout. hopefully you can "zoom" out the icons to a manageable size,
but still keep the text readable? who designed this thing anyway and
why do we like it so much anyway? the screen shots don't seem to show
off anything particularly new or unique (or even useful))
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- Gus
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