GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 159271
Make "Text beside icons" work on Desktop too.
Last modified: 2012-09-19 18:26:55 UTC
it would be great if icons on the desktop also adhere to the "Text beside icons" preference. thank you all for a wonderful file manager.
Created attachment 38286 [details] [review] Trivial patch Here is the (very) trivial patch to support this. The fact that there is so much support for this in the code and that it was explicitly disabled makes me think there were once good reasons for disabling this feature. Do any of the maintainers care to throw in their two cents?
Yeah I found it especially annoying that this was disabled considering when text beside icons was first introduced as a feature many desktop screen shots showed it that way. It looks way better than text under icons IMO. This goes hand in hand with another bug i submitted about how there is a huge discrepancy between the options available in the nautilus browser vs. the desktop. They should all have the same options. (zoom, text beside icons, etc, etc). Whoever disabled this rather than making it gnome registry configurable really wasn't thinking.
Created attachment 47159 [details] [review] Proposed patch (against HEAD). Thanks for your efforts! The right solution to this is to remove the whole supports_labels_beside_icons helper cruft, though.
is there a chance of this being merged into the main branch?
ping
*** Bug 523840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Christian, any news on this?
The code was added intentionally by Dave Camp in 2003, when he added "text beside icons": http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus/trunk/src/file-manager/fm-icon-view.c?revision=9429&view=markup There is only a very small amount of users that use "text beside icons", and the behavior should reflect the majority's opinion of this user base. However, since we only have two people who filed bug reports for this I am not yet convinced that a majority wants this, even though it is an inconsistency.
There can be also another group of options - desktop only. PS: The "text beside icons" must be intelligent, so when text is on the right side, and icons is put on the right edge, text lands on the left side of icon. This can coexist with "position of the text: left/right side of the icon".
I'm a "Text beside icons" user, and I don't like the inconsistency. Either zoom, text alignment, etc. should be applied consistently across the desktop and the file browser, or the Desktop should have it's own options. I prefer the former.
*** Bug 577164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I even searched for an hour before I posted 577164, and didn't find this. Any news on this front? as I don't really want to patch and rebuild from source just to fix something this trivial. However, the default action seems very inconsistent to me.
*** Bug 590190 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 596358 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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