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Idea #3566: GNOME should show file details in a tooltip when hovering over files w/ mouse

Written by verb3k the 6 Mar 08 at 16:53. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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In KDE and Windows, if you move the mouse pointer over a file, you will see a tooltip of useful information like size, filetype, permissions etc, but in GNOME, I always right-click the file and choose "properties" just to see this info. That's against the usability policy in both ubuntu and GNOME, having a similar feature would be really nice.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #3566
Written by verb3k the 6 Mar 08 at 16:53.
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Solution #2: Gnome Nautilus with intelligent tooltip
Written by McGivrer the 29 May 09 at 19:39.
Nautilus i the perfect file browser. just 2 steps to get it the best one:
- Add some intelligent tooltip showing media information with some default possible action with small action icons
- the "actions icons" capabilities can be disabled if needed,
- some preferences can set wich action can be perform and with which tools.
In fact, this can b easily implemented just with the scripting capabilities of nautilus extension to other mouse/keys events of the browser?

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vicho wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 15:48
Yeah, that would be handy :)

glotz wrote on the 28 Jun 08 at 21:22
I personally hate tooltips.

knote wrote on the 10 Sep 08 at 09:17
I would prefer it if GNOME could show other metadata as well, that the user could manipulate. That way the user can leave himself a note describing what the file is about. This metadata could be in the file itself (like with OpenOffice documents) or in a connected file. I am strugeling with the chaos on my desktop and in folders, and can never find the right document I am looking for.

stoppage wrote on the 1 Oct 08 at 13:19
I expect Gnome to show same tooltip features for folders/avi's, mp3's etc. as Windows. This is a seriously lacking feature!

andrewsomething wrote on the 6 Apr 09 at 00:21
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/227301
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147642


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