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blogs > andrew > software > gnome-desktop > hover-audio
Fri, 22 Jul 2005
Audio snippets when hovering
I was waving my mouse over my desktop where I’d downloaded a few recent episodes of LugRadio and suddenly when a few seconds of babble with a British accent bubbled out of my speakers.
Stunned silence.
I didn’t think I’d clicked on the file to actually open it, but ok, fine. Wait
for totem to fire up to play the .ogg. Waiting, waiting. Hm. totem
didn’t fire up. I hadn’t double clicked on it. Huh?
So I waved my mouse back over one of the .oggs, and then another sound bite
(the first few seconds of the episode) came out of my speakers.
Whoa!
So just as the GNOME desktop (ok, nautilus presumably) does a thumbnail of an
image (ok, no biggie) or from a video clip (hey, neat), it does an audible
thumbnail to help you know identify what a given audio file is.
Cool!
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