Text file preview in icon missing

[peterzay]

In 14.04, a text file icon would permit a modest preview of the beginning of the first few lines.

This feature is a tremendous productivity boost.

16.04 no longer supports this feature. Please bring it back.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.366
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Feb 28 14:45:12 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:

LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160214)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[peterzay (peterzay)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762871

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

@peterzay It is useless to file a bug to the upstream. They removed that feature and abandoned development for nautilus 3.14 long ago. You better try file a for newer nautilus (>=3.20).