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