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Bug 394929 - Default size of desktop icons should be configurable
Default size of desktop icons should be configurable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 148293
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.17.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-10 05:29 UTC by Will Farrington
Modified: 2008-04-30 11:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Will Farrington 2007-01-10 05:29:35 UTC 
Due to the prevalence of Scalable Vector Graphics in icon sets, it only makes sense to make the default icon size for the desktop icons be configurable through not only a portion of the graphical settings window for Nautilus desktop options, but also for gconf.

Forcing users to manually resize individual icons to a size other than the currently-restrictive default is counter-intuitive.
Comment 1 Ryan Paul 2007-07-29 19:50:47 UTC 
Nautilus icon zooming is currently hard-coded to a disabled state for the desktop. You can trivially enable support for icon zooming on the desktop by changing the return value of real_supports_zooming to TRUE in fm-desktop-icon-view.c. If you do that, you will be able to change the size of your desktop icons by hitting ctrl with the +/- keys like you can in any other window, or by using Zoom In and Zoom Out items on the desktop's right-click context menu.

In the source code, a comment in real_supports_zooming explains that allowing desktop zooming "would cause all sorts of complications involving the fixed-size window." In practice, I have really only found one minor problem, and it's that making the icons really large can cause them to move off of the screen. When this happens, I just select "Clean Up By Name" from the desktop right-click context menu to bring them back into view and then I re-arrange them as needed.

I have yet to see any other problems emerge from enabling desktop icon zooming. I'd like to see some work done on this, because I think it would be a major bummer to sacrifice such a useful feature because of what seem like pretty trivial problems.
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-04-30 11:15:35 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148293 ***