Thursday, June 14, 2012

Spacebar power in gnome-shell

May be some of you already know about it, but I am sure there are still some who don't know like me :). Yesterday I was just going to watch "Big Bang Theory" and by mistake I pressed "spacebar" instead of "Return key (Enter)" to a already selected file and boom I was able to see video, I though may be it's gnome-shell preview feature, but I was wrong, It is a feature of nautilus and provided by module called"sushi" I also noticed it a fully function video player (pause/play and full screen). Don't think if you press space again video will pause, it will go away :)

Nick Parlante talking about python regex


Curiously I selected one folder and press spacebar and got property of the folder (size, modified date ..etc).


And then a picture, you can preview in medium size and their is also a full screen mode button at bottom of preview screen.

 
I just liked this feature so much, couldn't control myself to share :), well enjoy the power of spacebar !!

4 comments:

Florian Müllner said...

Great you like it :)

A small correction though: the previews are provided by a module called" sushi" and could be considered a nautilus feature. So GNOME Shell is actually not involved at all, and the feature should work just fine in fallback mode as well (minus the slight translucency of the preview window).

Praveen Kuamr said...

Thanks Mullner for correct Information, will edit.

Kalpa Welivitigoda said...

wow that's cool
Thanks Pravin

Praveen Kuamr said...

@Kalpa yes indeed :)