Re: PATCH for some random stuff.

[Bruce Robert Pocock <brpocock 10east com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 10:38, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 07:04, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > some ideas that we threw around include:
> > 1.automatic layout ala windows(apparently is hard to do with icon
> > stretching)

The most essential "magic" about the Windows Explorer auto-layout is
that it's "text-like;" i.e. it moves the icon and reflows exactly as a
paragraph of text would under the same circumstances...

> Second, place the icons in standard left--right, top--bottom order.
> Place each icon in the next available grid cell. If an icon is larger
> than the grid cell it's going in, let it spill onto adjoining cells.
>  
> The only trick I see is figuring out the grid pitch. Too small and many
> icons would spill over into two, four, or more cells; too large and
> small icons would be lost.

It would seem to me that the grid pitch should be the default icon size
at the current window zoom setting, no?