[Usability]Re: Nautilus preferences proposal

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 23:31, Alex Larsson wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2002, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > 2."Icon & List View" preference should be renamed. Maybe File Manager. 
> 
> Maybe "File Windows"?

Dave, if there is a bug on this, could you please point me to it?  I
still can't understand the value of this change.  Sorry.

> > 3. Remove list view font preferences. While for the icon view it may
> > make sense to be able to change the font and font size for the icon
> > captions, the list view imho should just use system default chosen by
> > the user.
> 
> Yeah. Maybe we should keep the listview fontsize. I dunno. Maybe we should 
> just implement zooming in the list view instead.

I would not be too upset if we got rid of the font preference from both
views, but I still don't understand the motivation for making this
change only to the list view.  In any case, I agree that zooming is a
more important feature, but it's definitely not mutually exclusive...