Re: something to think about wrt volume management

[Seth Nickell <seth gnome org>]

Thanks Jens, that is a good reminder. It does look like the grid
spacings could be closer. I agree that the half-grid spacing is too
tight, but that looks much looser than it needs to be.

-seth

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 01:19, Jens Knutson wrote:
> With this talk of a new volume management scheme, I thought I'd post
> this screenshot to point out a couple things...
> 
> First, here's the link: http://upevil.net/temp/800by600.png
> 
> (note that in this screenshot, the "MP3 Player" icon is supposed to
> represent a portable music player, not XMMS or some such)
> 
> As the title suggests, this was taken at 800x600 resolution, still
> common these days.  The screenshot shows the effective maximum number of
> files on the desktop with the current grid size in Nautilus (without
> using the half-grid increments, which results in overlapping icons using
> the default font sizes) as being only 15.  If there are a bunch of
> folders dropped onto the desktop, as well as device icons, etc, we could
> end up with as few as only 4 or 5 user-created/downloaded files fitting
> on the desktop...
> 
> I'm not suggesting a solution here, or even attempting to point out the
> source of the problem, just bringing up a potential conflict.
> 
>  - jck
> 
> -- 
> "The bugs in Sawfish, and its greater configurability, are not
> orthogonal/unrelated facts"
> -- Havoc Pennington