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Idea #21988: Icons Preview Standardisation

Written by imorteck the 22 Oct 09 at 10:13. Related project: Nautilus. Status: New
Rationale
Nautilus has lots of nice features and is much more usable than the previous releases, but ONE thing that has been overlooked by most GNU/Linux users/developers even in many forums/blogs, and ANY Mac user will notice as soon as they get their hands on it is... icons.

Though we do have all the nice features like sorting, aligning, grid snapping, but the icons have NO LIMIT to their size however. Take a look at Nautilus and you'll tell me, when you have a mixed up of files in a directory, almost each type of a file will have it's own different size in 'preview'. E.g When a PDF file is in the middle of GIF's and JPG's (and preview is on), some of the files will have a larger preview size (on either height or width) than the others.

This matter even becomes worse when the files are mixed with non-preview-able files.
Tags: icons preview

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Solution #1: Standardise icon's previews
Written by imorteck the 22 Oct 09 at 10:13.
I think the only solution will be to standardize by making a "Frame-limit" around the icon's previews (images). A good example is on both OS X and Win32 whereby icons don't exceed other icons despite their file format and sizes (select a file and you'll see the frame, OS X).

This is just a small modification (logically), but it does have a big impact on the 'look and feel' of the whole system.

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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 22 Oct 09 at 17:07
This is annoying, especially when arranging icons on the desktop. Thank you.

TwistedLincoln wrote on the 26 Oct 09 at 14:55
There is already support for this, via changing a couple of gconf keys. I don't recall where it is anymore, but we made this change the default in Nexradix 1.16.

daas88 wrote on the 26 Oct 09 at 23:07
Like TwistedLincoln said, there's a way to fix it but it should be the default in ubuntu. Alt+f2 and type "gconf-editor". Navigate to apps/nautilus/icon_view. Change the thumbnail size from 96 to let's say 48 and it should look fine now.

Long names can be annoying too.


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