Cover flow WITH column view?

I like coverflow (more than I thought I would) however, the downward movement of the file path(s) below gets a little awkward. The perfect combination would be coverflow at top with a column view below. Any chance this can be done with some sort of hack or third party software? Maybe the the next update? This would be the icing on the cake for me.

sorry not an answer, but i want to be in on the thread if one comes up, + wanted to agree with you. Coverflow is beautiful; and pretty handy, but currently it only really works in virtually empty folders, as soon as you list drops down too far it becomes awkward (and is probably the reason apple invented the column view) dunno why they didn't reaslise this themselves?
surely column view is the preferred view for most users these days, there fore you;d expect the 'new' feature to work with that view not the old system 9 folder list view. I bet catfish would have done it better! ( the inventor of coverflow! )

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