[Suggestion] Preview/Metadata panel

[Rexadev]

Here is the perfect UI I imagine -

 * Nemo version (nemo --version)
 * Is issue with desktop or windowed nemo?
 * Distribution - Debian Testing Latest
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used
 * 64 bit

Related:
#3082
#3084
#3083

[Jeremy7701]

Why?

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[Rexadev]

Too look quickly though files.
Preview - Good for Images, video Thumbnails, Audio Album Art.
Metadata - See File Format, Music Sample-BitRate, File Last Edited, File Created
@Jeremy7701

[BlabberBlabbing]

I would have opened a new "feature request" but apparently you don't accept them anymore, despite this one doesn't look like it has been addressed.

To the point:

Let's take the "perfect UI" that the OP imagined (though I don't agree on the concept of "perfect" because it depends on the users' needs). On the right you have an "extra pane". Nemo today features an "extra pane" on the right as well. Unlike Windows explorer (and other file managers) though, this extra pane doesn't enable file previews for common file types like media and documents.

Nemo features previews by pressing the spacebar which is good enough for many users. But not for all, especially those that have folders with many media with odd features.
Imagine for example I have a folder with a thousand drone images of a desert. How can I look at them to find the ones where a person is or which are perfectly stabilized?
Can you see that from the thumbnail? NO
Can you see that from the previews? Probably, but you might need to customize the size for each preview and you definitely need more time to do that VS windows previews which just require you to select the file.
Imagine you want to pick the best picture of a model shoot: in windows you can fastly select with the arrow keys/mouse one pic after the other to check how good they are in the preview pane. In Nemo you can't - fastly.
And so on.

IMO this can (easily?) be implemented adding this feature to the "extra pane" such that, when the feature is enabled, the extra pane shows the spacebar-activated preview automatically (that is, without pressing the spacebar) and resizes it to fill the selected width of the extra pane. But ofc this can be implemented in other ways as well.
Thanks.