GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 86413
When using small icons (50% or 25%) draw text on the right.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
In mac osX when a small zoom level is used text is drawn on the right. Visually I find this really appealing as small icons look weird with long file names underneath them. Also implementing this provides a simple solution to bug 66768 (note these are not quite dupes) which is a feature request for a windows style list view (basically the same thing I'm requesting except I do not want a separate view).
If no objections, I'll assign to myself, as I'm working on this already. My definition is roughly: If the height of the icon > the height of the text, place the editable label (usually filename) to the right of the icon, on the same baseline, left-flush; and, place any non-editable text (file type, size, &c.) under the icon, left-flush, aligned to the right edge of the icon: _ |_| EDITABLE FILE NAME possible extra text This also would affect icons scaled down with "stretch" control.
of course that should read 'height of the icon < height of the text'
Bruce is this that bug you were looking for??? I think I miss understood your comments on the list.
The other difference between this and bug 66768 is that in bug 66768 the files are laid out in columns rather than rows. This isn't as simple as just moving the text label to the side; you've got to change the layout orientation as well. Are you planning on changing the layout too?
dave implemented something similar to this in nautilus.
Cool, where I can download pached nautilus or at least see screenshot ?