Re: something to think about wrt volume management

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

I'm not sure this can be fixed by simply tweaking the spacing.  Before
someone changes this it would be good to look at screenshots of 1)
larger desktops and  2) folders with thumbnails or icons with long
names.

Ultimately it would great if icon size and spacing would scale together
to accomedate different screen sizes (from a 21 monitor to PDA) while
keeping the default zoom...

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:38, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 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