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chuckh1958
May 15th, 2009, 05:13 PM
Is there a way in the file browser to have it pop up a balloon showing the file's owner and permissions by hovering the mouse over it? I like to use the compact file view so I can fit more files in the window which doesn't show those columns by default. It would be nice to have something as common as that to pop up in a balloon after 2 or 3 seconds.

kanikilu
May 15th, 2009, 07:11 PM
I don't think there is a way to add a tool-tip in nautilus. Check out this bug report, which also has a couple links to ideas on brainstorm:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/277604

For what it's worth, an alternative file manager called xfe has tooltips that include ownership in all the views. Panel > Small icons, is similar to nautilus' "compact view".