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Idea #5658: Make icon bounding boxes optional

Written by Warbo the 25 Mar 08 at 01:54. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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In Nautilus an icon with completely transparent areas can be selected by clicking in a transparent area. The old behaviour was to make transparent areas invisible to clicks, so that things underneath could be clicked on. I realise that from a usability perspective having a bounding box is a good idea, but I think that for those (like me) who want to fit as much in view as possible an option could be put somewhere in Gconf to switch between the old way and the new way.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #5658
Written by Warbo the 25 Mar 08 at 01:54.
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Warbo wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 22:17
I've found the commit which changed this and taken the icon hit-finding code from there (nautilus 2.2.0.2) and got it working in the current stable version (2.22). I'm going to look into making GConf settings now, then I'll find out how to create patches and maybe packages (time for me to graduate from checkinstall I think :P ).

I realise this may be of interest to only me, but a) I would like to be able to use this behaviour, b) this has got 14 plus votes so someone might at least like the option and c) this is the very first time I've hacked on someone else's code (and I'm very inexperienced in C, only going as far as a basic introductory course), so it's a big step on my giving-back-by-developing journey :)


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