I had been thinking about developing something like that since I started to use Mac OS X as my development environment, but I left my Apple boxes at home in PL and now I’ve switched back to Linux (you simply can’t forget your roots :-)) . So, the idea has been swapped in the abyss of my mind until I accidentally came across GISLook five minutes ago:
GISLook and GISMeta are plugins for Mac OS X 10.5 that show GIS data in the Finder.
These cool-looking plugins were created by Bernhard Jenny.
I know many GIS users loving products of the forbidden fruit, so I’m spreading the word about these nice looking and, hopefully, well working tools.
I use this a lot at work, very nifty for a quick peek at a shapefile. But I miss this feature at home (ubuntu). It would be great to have a similar tool in Linux.
Yes, I suppose it would be nice to have Nautilus manager displaying thumbnails for gis datasets :-)