Bug#605334: wish feature quicklook parameter

[jamesb]

Package: eog
Version: 2.22.3-2
Severity: wishlist

Just thinking about this.. not just for eog but for many other filetypes..

If a filemanager and application are eccentric and a universal quicklook option implementable,
let it be so limitted with little change of the underlying code..

The idea is to have a key (like spacebar or customizable key) to be tapped twice..
 ->the filemanager would have a "quicklook" key(eg:spacebar), which would open with a customizable string-path to
  a quicklook application.
 ->the quicklook application would be nothing short of a "-quicklook" parameter adoption
    -- the idea then for the quicklook parameter would indicate to the quicklook application (whatever application it may
     be -eg like eog) to activate it's own "quicklook" bindkey, which can be the spacebar again..
      --hitting the spacebar again would close the application window..
      
I don't believe it would be difficult to add code for this feature but it would have to work for both parties..the filemanager
team to add on a quicklook feature key and the quicklook application development team..

and of course a vote would be nice.. am just speculating if anyone wants this.. but I find it very useful and come from a mac 
background as you can tell :)

thanks for the good work and hope to hear from you soon..


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.1 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eog depends on:
ii  gconf2              2.22.0-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme    2.22.0-1             GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2        2.3.20-2             Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6               2.7-18lenny4         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2           1.6.4-7              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.76-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3          2.0.1-1              library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12           0.6.16-2.1           library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgconf2-4         2.22.0-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0         1:2.6.2-1            library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.16.6-3             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2  2.22.3-2             Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0         2.20.1.1-1           The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0        2.20.1.1-2           The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0      1:2.22.0-5           GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.12.12-1~lenny2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62           6b-14                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1            1.17.dfsg-1+lenny2   Color management library
ii  libx11-6            2:1.1.5-2            X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2             2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny1 GNOME XML library
ii  python2.5           2.5.2-15+lenny1      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  shared-mime-info    0.30-2               FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages eog recommends:
ii  librsvg2-common           2.22.2-2lenny1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG

eog suggests no packages.

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