an icon view for the fileselectors would be useful

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use. What is the "lookup mode"? Could you make a screenshot of the bug?

What version of Ubuntu do you use: feisty
What is the "lookup mode": standard dialog when opening a file in an application, say gedit, gthumb, etc.
I've added a mockup: normally files are shown in a list, but I activated an icon view
This icon view is normally available nautilus where you can choose list or icon view, except in typical lookup dialogs.

What you call "lookup mode" is not clear, do you speak about fileselectors? Could you describe easy steps to trigger the bug? What do you expect and what do you get?

Well, it's not exactly a bug but merely a feature request...
When I want to open a file, say in gedit, after 'File', 'Open' a 'File Open Dialog' appears (caption: 'Open files...'. I my terminology I call this a lookup dialog, your description of 'file selector' is probably better.
In this particular dialog, I'm missing the option that I cannot switch to icon mode for preview purposes (in stead of the standard list mode), see the attached mockup image.

Those widget are GtkFileSelectors from libgtk and have nothing to do with nautilus, reassigning. There is already a request upstream about it, you can read about it on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141154

In Hardy, there's a preview implemented. Tested this and it works OK.
So, this one can be closed, "Fix released".

See: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10216/

This is still present in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty...

"File Chooser" should have image preview!

and still exists in 9.10 this is difficult to add this option ?

the change is really not trivial indeed

hm, i think easy step to make perfection, now like i see gnome desktop is
maked for users and users sometimes send photos and cant select easy correct
beacose system limit select file only to see filenames why ? if in other
view i see thumbs i think there is easy to add it and next step is ready

2009/8/14 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>

> the change is really not trivial indeed
>
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> an icon view for the fileselectors would be useful
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137606
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in gtk: Confirmed
> Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> When using nautilus in lookup mode, i.e. browse for a file for opening or
> selecting, the list of files is always in list mode. It would be very handy
> when one can change to icon mode, because then there's automatically a
> preview.
>
> This has especially much value when browsing for an image, say for adding
> an attachmant in a gmail message within firefox.
>
> Note. special lookup screens for example eog already have a preview, but
> this is a special mode, this should be generic.
>