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Bug 169399 - Stretch/scale icon through the properties window
Stretch/scale icon through the properties window
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.11.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 110343 307752
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-06 16:21 UTC by Raphael Bosshard
Modified: 2018-01-02 18:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Patch to attach some resize-icon widgets (and logic) to the file properties dialog. (4.07 KB, patch)
2005-03-06 16:23 UTC, Raphael Bosshard
none Details | Review
updated patch for the described behaviour (4.30 KB, text/plain)
2005-07-12 18:33 UTC, Raphael Bosshard
  Details

Description Raphael Bosshard 2005-03-06 16:21:24 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.
Comment 1 Raphael Bosshard 2005-03-06 16:23:49 UTC
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... :(
Comment 2 Matthew Lenz 2005-04-08 18:47:38 UTC
Another feature missing is the default zoom/scale of the desktop icons.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2005-05-08 12:02:01 UTC
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?
Comment 4 Christian Neumair 2005-07-12 15:46:31 UTC
Raphael?
Comment 5 Raphael Bosshard 2005-07-12 18:33:19 UTC
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
Comment 6 Christian Neumair 2005-07-12 19:00:21 UTC
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
Comment 7 Raphael Bosshard 2005-07-12 19:20:50 UTC
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.
Comment 8 Raphael Bosshard 2005-07-13 21:40:52 UTC
See <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88277">Bug 88277</a>
Comment 9 António Fernandes 2018-01-02 18:46:16 UTC
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/