Icon captions in Nautilus don't work

[Peter Silcock]

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:
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>>On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:02, Alex Viskovatoff wrote:
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>>>The documentation for Nautilus states:
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>>>  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.
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>>>This doesn't work on my system. [snip]
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>>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. 
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>Thanks for your reply.
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>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.
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>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.)
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