I was playing with spreadsheets.google.com with a simple list and sum bike parts list, saved it to the desktop as an .xls, and just noticed that the icon is  a miniature snapshot of the spreadsheet. Now thats fancy! Amusingly enough, Gnumeric files do not do this, but MS format does.

I didnt notice that, but I too have also played with google spreadsheets.. its kinda nifty, but I didnt really know what to do with it. I am sure that it will come in handy one day though, slowly but surely Im using more and more of Googles services :?

That is cool thumbnailing though, overall Nautilus is great for thumbnails if a little on the leisurely side, when you load up a huge directory of pictures.

A bit off topic, but I have moved all my JPGs from a folder I made called My Photos and now use F-Spot to look after everything, it made a copy of them all, in the corresponding area: ~/Photos/// according to exif

I deleted the My Photos folder and its all wonderful - its also faster than Picasa, at being Picasa, id say.. available in the repos, youve probably already seen it, tbh

Windows has been thumbnailing Micorsoft documents, spreadsheets, etc for sometime, but it is pretty fancy to see Linux doing the same with MS files.

Openoffice supported thumbnailing is pretty new, but weve had pdf, text, video, Photoshop/Gimp, image, and svg thumbing for a couple years. Some folks would argue that its pointless, but I think its useful eye candy.

i just love little quirks like these

I like SVG

I can have massive icons on my desktop without any distortion. lovely!