Re: RFE - Change nautilus default thumbnail size from 96 to 48

[Mark <markg85 gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 14.08.2008, 22:24 +0200 schrieb Mark:
>> Now i was hoping we could change this to make the icons and the
>> thumbnails the same size. A desktop looks a lot more attractive when
>> the icons and thumbnails are the same size than when everything is
>> 48x48 and just a few images have a thumbnail of 96x96 making it look
>> strange.
>
> I somewhat agree.
>
> The entire icon layout looks extremely more regular and appealing when
> no thumbnails are used, or if they match the icon size.
>
> With manual layouts, numeruous bugs are introduced. For instance, if you
> have a layout where (due to a recent deletion) a gap for one
> non-thumbnailed icon exists, the icon is placed nicely as it is created.
> But as the thumbnail is generated, it suddently overlaps existing icons.
>
> I see two possible solutions:
>
> A) Make the icon size match the thumbnail size, as you propose. Issue:
> small thumbnails are useless.
>
> B) Switch layout code to semi-manual layout. Completely manual layout
> sucks! That's what I've been thinking about some time now:
>
> There could be a preference dialog where you can decide in what screen
> corner different categories of desktop icons should be put, and whether
> they should be put in rows or columns.
>
> For instance, you can have have folders and files in the left-top
> corner, with a column-wise layout (or a row-wise layout), and volumes in
> the top-right corner, and the trash in the bottom-right corner.

Well for your second idea.. i don't really like that. for example if i
have widgets on my screen i tend to put them on the right part of it.
I don't want gnome to just dump thumbnails there.. It could be
interesting to have the option, yes, but not on by default please.

What is probably a lot better is that a real desktop icon grid is
gonna be put on the desktop and icons just snap in it. Like it was
with KDE 3 and probably in dolphin a.t.m. (not sure). Also to have a
normal desktop grid without text overlapping other icons this bug will
need some attention: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84390
(is there since 2002!!!)

Something else that might be interesting is if the icons are smaller
or equal to 48px then don't thumbnail it but use the icon of the
extension/mime-type and if the icons get bigger then start
thumbnailing. The negative part here is that some thumbnails do look
good in 48x48.. just most doesn't

Or there should be a new view:
(current) List view
(current) Icon view (where that would never thumbnail anything and
always use the icons of the extension/mime-type)
(new) Thumbnail view (Nearly the same as icon view but it makes
thumbnails regardless of the icon or thumbnail size)

>
> In addition, you could snap specific items to given screen positions, to
> arrange shortcuts or other items.
>
> best regards,
>  Christian Neumair
>
> --
> Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>
>
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