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Content Previews

Embedded previews for various content types, including documents, music, video and images.

Goals

Non-goals

Relevant Art

Google Drive

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4kGiCiIGIo/U91ABIA2ydI/AAAAAAAB-os/fVdTp7UmYAc/s1600/google-drive-viewer-new-ui.png

Quick Look

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/7/27/1248704400122/quicklook-playback-028.jpg

Also allows viewing two items side by side:

http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/compare-two-pictures-side-by-side.JPG

Chrome

http://cdn.techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Chrome-PDF-Viewer1.png

Firefox

https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net/user-media/previews/full/78/78524.png?modified=1351536002

GNOME / Sushi

sushi-screenshot.png

Discussion

Observations about relevant art:

Additional functionality to consider:

Tentative Design

Key Interactions

Content selection (single item mode):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/content-selection-single.png

Content selection (multiple item mode):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/content-selection-multiple.png

Files:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/files.png

Web:

TO DO

Content Types

Audio:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/audio.png

Information toggle displays additional metadata.

Documents:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/document.png

Information toggle displays metadata.

Images:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/image.png

Information toggle displays additional metadata.

Video:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/video.png

Information toggle displays additional metadata.

Side by side preview

Available from Files when two content items are selected for preview.

Audio:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/multiple-audio.png

Only one item can be played at once.

Documents:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/multiple-document.png

Only displays the first page of each document (this could be changed in the future).

Images:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/multiple-image.png

Each image is shown on either side, and the slider can be used to move the partition between them.

Video:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/content-previews/multiple-video.png

Videos play simultaneously, without sound (a toggle to control which video omits sound could be added here).

Open Questions

See Also

Comments


2024-10-23 11:03