GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 169399
Stretch/scale icon through the properties window
Last modified: 2018-01-02 18:46:16 UTC
The method to stretch/resize the icon is neither very discoverable nor very accessible. So I wrote this (still buggy) patch. It will allow a user to strech/resize the file's icon through the properties window. This has several advantages over the "old" way, though it's not so "direct manipulation" anymore.
Created attachment 38336 [details] [review] Patch to attach some resize-icon widgets (and logic) to the file properties dialog. Need help to implement "reload icons on size change". Couldn't figure it out by myself... :(
Another feature missing is the default zoom/scale of the desktop icons.
do you have a screenshot of what the patch does? can you mail the nautilus list about it, maintainer use the list for the patches usually?
Raphael?
Created attachment 49045 [details] updated patch for the described behaviour Still here, still breathing. ;) Attaching updated patch. Screenshot of the new behaviour: http://home.zhwin.ch/~bosshrap/programming/Nautilus%20with%20icon%20scaler.jpg
neat! We still have to figure out what the best UI is, but it is already a good first shot. Bug 307752 also suggests to offer some icon size presets ("small, bigger, huge"). Usability team, any suggestions? two ideas from the top of my head - provide an entry for entering the factor - provide captions on the slider, snapping to some special values - also provide a snapping mechanism for the drag handle
Yes, I also thought about that. I'd prefer the "snap to special values" method (Nautilus sizes; smalles smaller small, normal, big, bigger, biggest), though without captions. Just some marks where it will snap to. I don't know if GTK+ provides something like that, though. I don't know about the entry. Snapping would negate the need.
See <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88277">Bug 88277</a>
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature. For better alternatives, read this blog post https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/nautilus-desktop-plans/