Zoran Rilak wrote:
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.
As I only use List view I may not exactly be qualified to comment on this (one of the original reasons I remained silent). Took me a while to figure but it seems you were referring to Icons view with Compact Layout (View -> Arange -> Compact Layout) On to the actual patch. I applied the patch compared the current implementation with yours but after a half hour or more of experimenting with it I'm still a little confused. It seems that with your patch applied the layout is resized more fluidly and the what seems to me uncomfortable white margin on the right edge is eliminated. I wouldn't agree with Alex that it feels busy, but as I stated before I've never really used this layout (neither in Nautilus nor any other applications). At this moment I'm leaning towards calling it an improvement. Personally I feel that Compact Layout itself is very "messy" (obviously this doesn't have much to do with your patch). In the situation where you have thumbnails/icons of different sizes they simply aren't aligned properly. The problem is that in the normal layout the uncomfortable right margin is still there. Besides that there are still situations where both the Compact Layout and the default one look messy. I made a little video comparing the two layouts. The darker instance is 2.26.3 with your patch applied, the lighter one is 2.24.1 without. You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlP1yriF084 Personally I'm interested in seeing how other file managers (Finder in particular) handles this situation. Hope this was of any use to you. Best regards, Bruce
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