I've been pretty quiet but I've read all of the discussion and tend to disagree with some.
I think thumbnails are important. It is a powerful way to identify the file, without opening it. It's not only used when going over an images folder, but also at the every-day every-folder time, when there's a picture at whatever folder - it's always good to know what it is. Nowadays most of our pictures' file name says nothing - DSC1435.jpg, pic0034.jpg, etc'. Thumbnails are the only way to really know what file are you dealing with, since the *Image* is the *File*. I believe that Nautilus does it close to prefect actually. No, there's no need for thumbnails at the list-view. But yes, on normal view, you should understand what image is it that you're messing with. As for movies and text files - I tend to like it, but it's more of an eye-candy than a useful feature, mostly because usually the file name can say much more about the content of the file. Yo'av. On 6/29/05, Johannes Zellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benedikt Meurer schrieb: > > >Benedikt Meurer wrote: > > > > > >>2) Add a separate 'Thumbnail view'. I discovered this in Windows > >>Explorer recently. > >> > >> > > > >In case somebody has no access to a winxp machine, I took two > >screenshots to demonstrate what I mean: > > > >http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/explorer-filmstreifen-ansicht.png > > > >http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/explorer-miniatur-ansicht.png > > > >Windows Explorer actually supports two different thumbnail related > >views, the first ('Filmstreifen', dunno the english term used by > >Microsoft) is probably not very well suited for a file manager, as this > >is more of a task for a dedicated image program like gqview. But the > >second looks pretty much like a good idea to me. > > > >Benedikt > >_______________________________________________ > >Thunar-dev mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > > > > > > > Heyho > > I'd like to have "Preview"/"Thumbnail" compromise. > I think it's very useful to have the Images in the Icon-View as little > Thumbnails, but only the Images, not Movies. > And have a modulized system, which can handle various view-models, like > a Image viewer (eg. like WindowsExplorer / i had something like that > with nautilus too) or a movie-player-view, a music-player-view ;), > probably a font-viewer. > So this heavey work is only loaded if the user use it, that keeps > Thunar-core small and fast and over the time more flexible. > Because i don't wanna open a completely new application like eog for > present my friends a image-gallery and I'll like have a fast and easy > way to listen only to one musicfile, than add this to a playlist or open > a new player. > > Well this is a lot of work and I wouldn't know what to do. :-) > > Just an Idea ;) > > Bye > Johannes > > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
