Re: Nautilus Must-Fix List - Revision 2

[Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com>]

> Desktop
> 1.	There need to be more options to arrange icons on the desktop
> 	rather than just "Clean Up By Name."  
> 
> 	REASON:
> 	GNOME 1.2 had a "tidy icons" feature which would allow you to
> 	simply align the icons (keeping their general location) to 
> 	make them appear more cleanly placed.  Currently, in nautilus,
> 	the only way to "tidy icons" is to arrange them all on the left
> 	side of the screen, by name.  

Couldn't agree more.  This feature is practically essential.

> 2.	Trash Icon Needs to have a customizable icon
> 
> 	REASON:
> 	It is the ONLY icon that is placed on the desktop that does not
> 	have a "custom image" property that can be directly accessed
> 	by the user (though a theme can currently modify the icon.

I agree, I guess, although typically a trash can consists of two
icons--one for empty and one for filled...just something obvious to
keep in mind.

> 3.	Text for icons on desktop should have customizable colors
> 
> 	REASON:
> 	When using a light colored background with a light colored theme,
> 	the text becomes unreadable on the desktop.  This can be easily
> 	remedied by either allowing the user to customize the text color
> 	(which does not solve the problem if the background shifts color)
> 	or by allowing the user to set a "bgcolor" property for the text
> 	so the text is always laid on a solid background.

Definitely.  Another nice feature would be to have the text
automatically be set to contrast nicely with whatever colour is behind
the icon.

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