Re: [Usability] Request for interface mockup

[Raphael Bosshard <whistler fnord ch>]

> Pixel sizes are pretty meaningless, but not having any feedback at all
> would make it difficult for the user to guess just how much bigger they
> were making the icon. If there isn't a live preview (which would look
> pretty odd in the dialog) then why not use the new icon's size relative
> to the default desktop icon size - probably displayed as a percentage?
> Users will know whether they want to icon to be twice as large, four
> times as large or half the size that everything else is.

The user will get instant visual feedback; the icon(s) on the desktop
get resized whenever the user changes the size. As soon as I find out
how to make nautilus react on changes at
NAUTILUS_METADATA_KEY_ICON_SCALE. 

In the patch's current version, Nautilus needs to be forced to re-read
the metadatabase. Not very userfriendly. ;)


> Of course, nautilus has a pair of 'zoom level' widgets in its
> preferences dialog that basically perform this same task - making icons
> bigger/smaller. It might be nice to make all of these icon size widgets
> look the same.
>