GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 737189
Refine list layout, reduce the number of zoom levels
Last modified: 2015-02-18 18:18:33 UTC
The current layout of lists in Nautilus isn't great. Spacing around the thumbnails isn't very good and you end up with way too much padding when zooming. (At high zoom levels, the list is virtually useless.) Additionally, the large number of zoom levels makes it easy to get lost, and creates additional work for the user to find the one they want. Some recommendations: * Reduce the number of zoom levels to 3/4. * Add separators between rows. * If the thumbnail is smaller than 32x32px, use an icon instead. * Use symbolic icons rather than full colour ones. * Ensure that padding is appropriate for each zoom level. Visual guidelines: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/nautilus/nautilus-next/list-zoom-levels.png The numbers for spacing are meant to be indicative, rather than a precise specification.
With rework of menus the zoom levels are correct now, but the other items still needs work.
What's the rationale of not using smaller then 32x32px thumbnails? Something like that would be very bad for my (not that frequent nowadays) icon work? It would be bad for web designers and any other workflow where you need to deal with several small images, so please don't. Also after some usage of 3.16 nautilus I think a pair of additional zoom levels would be nice to have.
(In reply to Lapo Calamandrei from comment #2) > What's the rationale of not using smaller then 32x32px thumbnails? Something > like that would be very bad for my (not that frequent nowadays) icon work? > > It would be bad for web designers and any other workflow where you need to > deal with several small images, so please don't. The smallest icon size for lists is 16x16px. We can't go any smaller.
This has been fixed in master.