Hi, I'm using GNOME for daily use, both for work and at home. I want to tell my feels about files preview in current GNOME.
I never enable "Text Files" preview. It's useless since you cannot easily figure out what this file is from the few characters shown in the preview icon. And I don't like group almost all kinds of files in "Other Previewable Files" except text, sound and folders. When it's enabled, pictures and pdfs are both show their thumbnails in the icons. I also found it's almost useless for pdfs. It's very hard to identify what the pdf is from the small first page on the icon. The first page of a pdf usually contains only a caption and several other lines of text. When shown in thumbnail, almost every pdf looks alike. The second point I don't like pdf thumbnails is their size is much larger than other normal icons. So scattering them with normal icons looks ugly. What the preview is very useful for and I often use is pictures. I disable all previews in ordinary use to keep large pdf thumbnails from showing. I only enable preview when I want to browser my picture directories. It's very inconvenient. So I suggest that 1. replace "Text Files" with "Pictures". Let "Other Previewable Files" control text files. or 2. take "Pictures" out of "Other Previewable Files" and make it a single item. Personally, I like to see the first one. Thanks, Jie _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
