Cane we get some more options for the Tooltip system please

[Ralf_Reddings]

Everything 1.5 lets you index so many properties yet its not ideal to try and cram properties into the Result List by way of columns, more over, the thumbnails view is just not meant to show more than a handful of properties.

I think, the ideal solution would be to show a handful of columns in the Result List, then rely on the tooltip to reveal more properties. The status bar due to the limits of its horizontal space cannot do this but the tooltip is ideal for it.

Currently, tooltip has some glaring limitations, such as the properties shown in it are dependent on the active columns. I wrote this article to bring your attention to it. I hope you will consider some of these ideas. Cheers.

1. Decouple the properties shown in the Tooltip from the current columns

Currently, the properties shown in the tooltip are dependant on the active columns.
So if you have the Name, Path and Date Created columns active. The tooltip will also only show that.
This is limiting, the tooltip should be used to reveal more information or what could not be fit into the Result List.

If we can specifically define a set of properties to always show on the tooltip and also another set of properties to show per file extension would be ideal.

For example, always show the following properties regardless of the file:

• Name

• Path

• Date Modified

Then, depending on the file extension show more properties. For example in the case of .gif files show:

• Width (If indexed)

• Height (If indexed)

• Total Frames (If indexed)

2. Summoning the tooltip when using the Keyboard only
Currently you can only use the tooltip with a mouse. A hotkey or a Modifier is needed to summon the tooltip for keyboard heavy users.
In the case of a modifier key, such as

Ctrl

, being used there should an option to specify how long should the modifier be held before the tooltip is shown, so that its not just shown with a tap of

Ctrl

or a tap

Ctrl

+

A

.
This would mean that its possible to use the Tooltip with just the Keyboard, which is critical.

3. Thumbnail in Tooltip
This would be really amazing to have, currently I am finding myself constantly toggling between detail and thumbnail just to get an idea of what the item looks like. Its not ideal, switching between the two views, its easy to loose track of what one is looking at.

Also the thumbnails are being regenerated. Just to get one thumbnail in a tooltip would be ideal:


EDIT: Pardon me for the use of the original images, I corrected it. I will keep this in mind going forward.

[horst.epp]

This would be really amazing to have, currently I am finding myself constantly toggling between detail and thumbnail just to get an idea of what the item looks like. Its not ideal, switching between the two views, its easy to loose track of what one is looking at.

Why don't you enable the preview function for this ?

[Ralf_Reddings]

Why don't you enable the preview function for this ?

This is something I attempted to do. It has the same limitations as the Thumbnail view:

• It changes the everything window itself

• Rearranges the objects

• If the dimensions of the Everything window is already small (Such as a bar or a "command launcher") then the preview will barely fit

• The previous state of the preview panel is remembered, sometime it will cover the entire window other times it will barely be visible.

• Has to be turned back of every time

The tooltip is ideal because, it is its own window and does not change the everything window at all and automatically goes away on its own.

[asamirid]

how do you display the graph bars in the size column ??

[Ralf_Reddings]

how do you display the graph bars in the size column ??

Hey, I believe this is a feature found in Directory Opus, its enabled by default.

[void]

1. Decouple the properties shown in the Tooltip from the current columns

I have on my TODO list to use the system tooltip.
(Can be customized with the registry editor)
I will also consider an option in Everything to customize the format for different file extensions and "kinds".

2. Summoning the tooltip when using the Keyboard only

I have put on my TODO list to add a keyboard shortcut to show the tooltip.

3. Thumbnail in Tooltip

I will consider an option to do this.

Thank you for the suggestions.