The Gloobus project consists of 3 sub-projects: Gloobus-Preview, CoverGloobus and Gloobus-Flow (currently on hold)
Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. It’s based on Apple’s “Quicklook”.
Ever been annoyed by those tiny useless miniatures of your files? Outraged by the fact that there’re no miniatures for half of the file formats you’re using? Excruciated by the painful loading time to see if you’re dealing with the right file? Hail to Gloobus, for tis’ is the Holy Grail of preview!
The ‘Preview’ Mode
The Preview mode is without a doubt, Gloobus star. It allows instant access to a variety of file types without the need of opening their default application. It allows you to take a quick look at the content of a file on the fly, saving you valuable time and CPU resources.
You can access the preview mode from several ways, right click on the file you want to preview and choose “Preview” o simply hit the Space key on your keyboard.
Video and audio files can be navigated on preview mode by dragging the slider of the progress bar at any given time.
Gloobus can currently preview over 40 file formats and its family is still growing:
Images: jpeg / png / icns / bmp / svg / gif / psd / xcf
Documents: pdf / cbr / cbz / doc / xls / odf / ods / odp / ppt
Source: c++ / c# / java / javascript / php / xml / log / sh / python
Audio: mp3 / ogg / midi / 3gp / wav
Video: mpg /avi / ogg / 3gp / mkv / flv
Other: folders / ttf / srt / plain-text
CoverGloobus
CoverGloobus allows you to see at a glance your currently playing song, with album artwork and ratings.
With the correct theme you can even Pause or switch to Previous or Next song in the playlist.
It is easily themed by artists with a simple XML format.
The ‘Coverflow’ Effect (currently on hold)
The Coverflow mode lets you browse thought your files visually, by flipping around the icons of your folders and documents. Each file is displayed as a large preview of its first page, so you can actually see the contents of a document before opening it.
