GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 500520
See real title of the file instead of the filename (or in addition to)
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:33:20 UTC
Hi, Some files have some metadata that contains the title of the file. PDF files have, OpenDocument have too I think, e-mails have a Subject header (see bug #500519) So I would like to be able to see this metadata instead of the filename (like it is actually done with desktop files I think). Or to be able to see the title in addition to the filename. The same could apply to the modification date. We may want to see the actual modification time stored within the file instead of the file modification time (that can correspond to a copy of the file instead of a real modification). We could also imagine maybe that the list view would let the user add columns for metadata. For example I would have a colums that say "filename", the other "title" and the other "author" for example.
Hmm, I wonder if this is more the domain of the app Documents instead of Files. It might be confusing to see titles mixed in with filenames. And completely different rules for how they are changed/set.
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