Re: [Nautilus-list] icon annotations

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On 3/8/02 10:00 AM, "Havoc Pennington" <hp redhat com> wrote:

> When did we add the "folder" and "application launcher" annotations
> below icons?
> 
> (as in http://people.redhat.com/~hp/prefs.png)

Firing up the Nautilus stable branch, I see that the default there is to
have the size/item count. But it has always been possible to customize what
appears under the icons with the Icon Captions pane in Preferences.

I suspect that the default got broken when making preferences changes to
nautilus. A bug report would be good. I might look into it now, but soon
I'll have to leave my house.

> This really seems like a "our UI is wrong so add explanatory text"
> kind of decision; i.e. a workaround for not using folder-looking icons
> for folders... 

No, you are reading too much into this.

> I think I've seen it clearly distinguishing the annotation from the
> main text in the past, but in the above screenshot it just looks like
> everything has a weird name.

On my Nautilus Gnome 1 build, the file sizes are blue. On my Nautilus Gnome
2 build, the file types are blue.  This is theme-specific, I think, and it's
bad to have a theme where there's no distinction. You should look into this
for the theme you're using.

    -- Darin

PS: Running Nautilus 1 made me realize how much better it looks. Screen
shots forthcoming.