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Bug 84718 - The DND animation for desktop folder icons is horrible.
The DND animation for desktop folder icons is horrible.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
0.x.x [obsolete]
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-10 08:32 UTC by Miles Lane
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Miles Lane 2002-06-10 08:32:07 UTC 
Repro:

Apply the Sierra Nautilus theme.
Autosort your icons, which places them pretty close to the 
left edge of your screen.
Drag a shortcut or file from the desktop over one of your folders.

Result: 

The folder icons leaps open like a huge lunging mouth,
pushing the label text down and to the left.  The weirdness
is even more exaggerated if you have an emblem applied to the
folder.

I really dislike this animation.  I'd much prefer a simple
highlight of the folder.  If we are going to do animation,
let's at least contrain the animation to use the same
icon dimensions as the closed folder.
Comment 1 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-06-10 20:31:52 UTC 
louie:

I'll leave this up to you but i think this pretty much notabug or wontfix.

Reasons:
1. nautilus doesn't have real animated icons like konq does. Konq uses
mngs for it's animated icons. Nautilus simply switches the icon
between two states, though supported mngs would be nice.

2. Given [1], basically all nautilus themes are unmaintained, and more
likely than not will just be removed in the future and replaced with
more gnomish themes, eg gorilla etc.

3. Given [2], sierra is also not the default theme so this becomes
even less of an issue.
Comment 2 Andrew Sobala 2003-03-27 19:42:19 UTC 
Urm... this is closed because of the migration to icon themes that
happened for 2.2