[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails

[Wit Wilinski]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:52:37 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

> 
> So, to continue with the thumbnailing stuff, we have basicly two 
> alternatives:
> 
> 1) Use thumbnails, like other file managers do, in place of mime icons 
> in the icon/details view, scaling them to the appropriate size as 
> required. The implementation would look similar to the one found in the 
> filer snapshot, tho not using D-BUS for the generator this time.
> 
> 2) Add a separate 'Thumbnail view'. I discovered this in Windows 
> Explorer recently.
> 
3) Add a sort of "extended tooltips", something like KDE has, but nicer;)
These tooltips would contain file's icon, its name and human-readable size (maybe additionaly human-readable mime type)

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