Re: stretch icon

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

David Christian Berg wrote:
> Alex mentioned somewhere in the thread,that you cannot only stretch the
> icons on the desktop but any icon. This is possible via the Edit menu,
> so no direkt interaction with the object. I don't object the idea of
> stretching the icon "on canvas" but I think it should be in the
> properties dialog along with the icon selection. This way the icon stuff
> is at one spot, the stretching is at the same place for the desktop and
> the windows _and_ there are less items in the right-click menu (also HIG
> -- reducing the number of items in menus ;) )

Ok, I see where you're coming from. If it were my call (perhaps 
thankfully, it is not), I think I'd nuke the whole feature, but I can 
understand keeping it.

I hadn't realized that the stretching was available throughout Nautilus 
with the Edit menu - thanks for pointing that out.

So, now that I'm back from that large tangent I seem to have caused, 
yeah, the properties window already has two icons buttons "Select Custom 
Icon..." and "Remove Custom Icons" - so that seems like an ok spot to 
add a slider.

I think along with these two buttons, there could be an "Icon" section 
on the Basic tab. My preferred UI (without putting too much though into 
it) would be a slider that has a live effect on the icon. It still seems 
like a bit of a regression from the resizing nodes you get right on the 
'canvas' right now... I suppose there could be a "resize icon" button in 
the properties window that activated the on-canvas resizing nodes, but 
there could be visibility issues with that (the icon might be /behind/ 
the properties window, etc.).

Cheers,
Steven Garrity