Re: "Keep Aligned" mode in nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 4 May 2003, Ali Akcaagac wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 01:25, Dave Camp wrote:
> > * The grid is about half the size of a normal icon space in a normal
> > icon view.  This allows more freedom when placing icons, but means that
> > icons won't always be in a strict grid.
> 
> Is it possible to increase the value a bit more ? The reason why I ask
> for this is because it often overlaps with horizontal Labels below the
> Icons.

It needs to be an even divisor of the normal icon size, otherwise we'll 
get strange "bands" of empty space between icons. As an extreme example, 
consider if the grid size is 90% of the normal width, then an icon would 
have to use two grid rects (180%) and you'd get an 80% wide blank column 
next to the icons.

> If I move the icons to the left leaving one complete Icon as space then
> the space is definately to much, but if I leave it the way it is then it
> sometimes overlap the Labels so it would be nice to have a better
> padding between the Icons.

Maybe making the grid smaller would help (1/3 normal icon size?), that way 
you can get smaller spacing, although you risk things not looking very 
snap-to-grid:y.

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