On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 20:30 -0400, Zoran Rilak wrote: > Hello all, > > Attached is a small patch that stretches the rows in Compact icon > view so that the icons align along the right edge as well. Resizing a > window in Compact view with this patch applied offers a more fluid > visual rearrangement of the icons: until a row of icons wraps, the > padding between the icons grows or shortens together with the right > window border. This gives a more interactive feel of the desktop. > Also, when viewing a directory with many differently-sized icons, > having the icons neatly arranged along the right edge (as opposed to > it being "jagged" as it is now), goes a long way to remove the "messy" > feeling when using Compact view. > > This patch only redistributes the extra padding to the right of the > last icon among all the icons in the row. No room is "stolen" from > the view and the same number of icons will fit in a row under all > circumstances both with and without the patch.
Hmmm. I must say I'm not sure the patched behaviour is nicer. I agree that the 'static' case looks nicer without the jagged right edge. However, the resize looks very "busy" with everything changing all the time. What do other people think? -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list