Re: "Keep Aligned" mode in nautilus

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Dave Camp">

> > I guarantee the next round of requests will be for "clean up without
> > sorting"... ;-)
> 
> What do you mean exactly?  Clean Up like the current Clean Up By Name,
> that puts everything in rows?  Or something that snaps a non-gridded
> desktop to a grid?

The latter.

> > I find that using non-compact mode wastes a heck of a lot of space. Why do
> > you say compact mode is "small and ugly"? Could a compromise be found so we
> > can remove these mostly silly modes?
> 
> It might be possible to do something.

> It might be possible to fix this by not taking emblems into
> account when doing layout.

That would probably not suck... Good idea.

> Second, the smaller the text gets horizontally, the larger it will get
> vertically.  Changing that pixel size caused a few of my normal icons to
> wrap.  Maybe it's worth it though. 

In compact mode, almost all of my icon labels wrap, so it wouldn't bother
me. ;-) Is that one of the things you think is ugly?

- Jeff

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