Re: Nautilus Must-Fix List - Revision 2

[Kenny Graunke <kenny whitecape org>]

<quote who="Jamin Philip Gray">

> > 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.

Indeed. It would be nice to do this "better" than the simple grid system
that most system use though - usually when I put icons towards the right
side of the screen, they align maybe 1.5 columns to the left of the edge or
something like that. It'd be nice to have icons snap to a grid but have the
grids around the edges with the "weird" blank space in the middle, not at
the bottom and right edges...

> > 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.

It's actually 4 in nautilus, IIRC. Full, Full-Accept (when the user is
dragging a file and hovering over the trash), Empty, and Empty-Accept.

> > 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.

Indeed. It's supposed to change based on the background color already, the
reason it doesn't change on light backgrounds is an overflow bug in eel
AFAIK - though I don't believe it ever changed based on the individual icon,
which would be ideal.

--Kenny