http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147642 is discussing how to patch nautilus with tooltips. One of the patches provided an experimental image preview, a little like what you mockuped. More tests, suggestions and interests is welcomed.
2008/6/1 Jeff Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I once made a mock-up of this that I submitted to Neil, the awnsome guy > behind awn. He was interested, but as he is very busy, I doubt that he will > be able to work on it anytime soon. So, fingers crossed, I am attaching my > mock-up to this mail in the hope that it sparkles interest/discussion. > > Now, why do we need this you say? Excerpts from the idea I suggested > initially: "I'm constantly switching between eye-candy (nautilus with > image thumbnails) and performance (nautilus with only icons), and I realized > the reason I switch back to "thumbnails" is that I need to differentiate a > handful files from each other, with similar names, when I'm working on a > project." > > I want the best of both worlds: unobtrusive "no preview" image icons, but > thumbnailing on demand without needing to enable/disable it system-wide all > the time. With compositing (as the mock-up kind of suggests), I think we > could make this really fast in the sense that there may be no need for > thumbnailing at all, because we could just throw the image directly at the > graphics processor unit, and the compositing/GL/whatever would take care of > scaling it in real-time (since it's only one image at a time anyway). I > think that would be nice to look at, blazingly fast, and downright cool. > Sadly I'm just a designer, and in no position to implement this myself. > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > >
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