Hi! Nautilus icon-view already uses zoom-levels to adjust the amount of information shown about the files, however the list-view doesn't do anything alike. The list-view increases the icon and font-sizes when zooming in. Of course the list-view shows the file-information in columns, but that doesn't mean that the font-size should get bigger when zooming in.
Also, at the smallest zoom-level the list-view uses 12x12 icons, which isn't consistent with anything else in GNOME. I did some experimenting with Nautilus and modified the icon and text sizes at the smallest zoom level to match with GtkFileChooser (16x16 icons). The result looks like this: http://www.students.tut.fi/~huttune2/nautilus/nautilus-list-smallest-new.png where as it used to look like this: http://www.students.tut.fi/~huttune2/nautilus/nautilus-list-smallest-old.png In my opinion, a good list-view zoom behaviour would be: zoom-level behaviour -------------------------- smallest 16x16 icon, no thumbnails even when turned on, since icons are so small that thumbnails are basically small squares with different colors and therefore not very useful, consistent with GtkFileChooser smaller 24x24 icons, thumbnails if turned on (zooming in gave additional information) small 36x36 icons, thumbnails if turned on standard ..and so on.. In all zoom-levels text font should be the Application-font (same size). And finally, is there anyone who really uses the icon-view at the smallest zoom-level? I think it is only confusing for a beginner who accidentally sets the smallest zoom-level, after which he/she is unable to see the filenames. (nautilus does show the filename of focused file in the statusbar, though) If I hadn't seen the code implementing it, I would have thought of it as a bug. http://www.students.tut.fi/~huttune2/nautilus/nautilus-icons-smallest-old.png -- Tero Huttunen -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
