Java Desktop System Release 3 User Guide

To Set Preview Preferences

The file manager includes some file preview features. The preview features can affect the speed with which the file manager responds to your requests. You can modify the behavior of some of these features to improve the speed of the file manager. For each preview preference, you can select one of the options described in the following table:

Option	Description
Always	Performs the action for local files, and files on other file systems.
Local Files Only	Performs the action for local files only.
Never	Never performs the action.

To set your preview preferences in the File Management Preferences dialog, click on the Preview tab.

Table 7–8 lists the preview preferences that you can modify.

Table 7–8 File Management Preview Preferences


Dialog Element	Description
Show text in icons	Use the drop-down list to specify when to preview the content of text files in the icon that represents the file.
Show thumbnails	Use the drop-down list to specify when to show thumbnails of image files. The file manager stores the thumbnail files for each folder in a `.thumbnails` directory that is one level below the folder.
Only for files smaller than	Use the drop-down list to specify the maximum file size for files for which the file manager creates a thumbnail.
Preview sound files	Use the drop-down list to select an option to specify when to preview sound files.
Count number of items	Use the drop-down list to specify when to show the number of items in folders. If you have set your view to icon view, you might need to increase your default zoom level in the Views tabbed section to see the number of items in each folder.