Re: Polishing the icon stretching code

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 01:31 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I have attached a patch to
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157271
> which makes nautilus use the resize cursors when stretching 
> an icon. It also makes the knob image themable. 
> 
> There are some more things which could be improved here:
> 
>  - Add keynav for stretching icons (proposal: use Ctrl-+/-  to
>    stretch the icon while the stretch handles are displayed)

And for moving them.  (See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86532, which covers both.)

Rather than Ctrl+plus/minus, we might consider using the arrow keys in
the same way that metacity does for resizing windows, which would give
us bonus points for consistency.  I guess it depends whether users
always want to retain the icon aspect ratio or not; probably yes, most
of the time, but maybe not if they're using the text file preview
feature.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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