Re: nautilus-list Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12

[Will Farrington <wcfarrington gmail com>]

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> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:13:46 +0100
> From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
> Subject: Re: Desktop Icons
> To: Will Farrington <a simple facade gmail com>
> Cc: nautilus-list gnome org
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> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:23 -0500, Will Farrington wrote:
> > I'm going to, within the next few days, make a specification on the Bug
> > Tracker concerning desktop icons.
> > 
> > With scalable icons commonplace in icon sets these days, the size of
> > icons on the desktop shouldn't be enforced by tedious resizing by hand.
> > 
> > There ought to be a gconf option (along with a given place somewhere in
> > a settings dialog) to determine the default size of desktop icons.
> > 
> > Thoughts, concerns, opinions?
> 
> The desktop icon size is currently related to the default zoom level in
> a slighly strange fashion. But you can sort of set it.
> 
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This is a usability issue. There's a big difference between having large
desktop launchers and having to use large icons in general file
management.

This option should be set by other means. =)