Re: Icon captions in Nautilus don't work

From: Peter Sil*** (smallcreep_at_quista.net)
Date: 06/16/04

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    I think they mean "zoom" as in menu item View / Zoom In. Increasing the
    magnification causes the additional information to be displayed.

    Peter Sil***

    Alex Viskovatoff wrote:

    >On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 21:43, Keith wrote:
    >
    >
    >>On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:02, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>The documentation for Nautilus states:
    >>>
    >>> An icon caption displays the name of a file or folder in an icon
    >>> view. The icon caption also includes three additional items of
    >>> information on the file or folder. The additional information is
    >>> displayed after the file name. Normally only one item of information
    >>> is visible, but when you zoom in on an icon, more of the information
    >>> is displayed.
    >>>
    >>>This doesn't work on my system. [snip]
    >>>
    >>>
    >>I know that KDE does what you describe. but I don't think nautilus acts
    >>like that when you place a mouse pointer over the icon. The menu items
    >>you mention have to do with the displayed information. File information
    >>is also displayed at the bottom of nautilus.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Thanks for your reply.
    >
    >Well, that means that the Gnome documentation is inaccurate, to say the
    >least. But also, it is unclear what is the purpose of the "Icon
    >captions" tab in "File management preferences", which one gets when one
    >selects the "Preferences" menu item in a Nautilus window. So I'm led to
    >believe that the problem isn't my system, but that this particular
    >feature of Nautilus hasn't been implemented yet.
    >
    >So is this a bug? (I get information displayed at the bottom of
    >nautilus, as you indicate, but that relates to the directory one is
    >working in, not to icons one is moving the pointer over.)
    >
    >
    >
    > 

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