Sexier Icon View

Registered by Adam M

I feel that Pantheon Files would look so much better if the space in between icons were increased. In Pantheon Files now (http://i46.tinypic.com/1z6zeb6.png), the space is much smaller than shown in various other file managers (shown below). Thus making it look clunky and disorganized.

Nautilus: http://blogs.gnome.org/cosimoc/files/2011/03/scr1.png
Dolphin:http://anl4u.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Dolphin-2.0.png
Finder: http://www.macosxapplications.com/wp-content/gallery/mac-os-x-lion/mac-os-x-lion-10-7-finder-window.png

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
None
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 0.2
Started by
Cody Garver
Completed by
Danielle Foré

Whiteboard

It looks like Dolphin and Finder also default to a larger icon size. The next size up for us would be 64px, the same as Slingshot. --DanRabbit.

Ctrl+ scroll up or down with the mousewheel doesn't help? -shiruken

Yes, it does. And so does creating a new folder (without zooming). But without any modifications this (http://i46.tinypic.com/1z6zeb6.png) is how it currently looks. By default it should probably be more spaced out like it does when you create a new folder/file or zoom.--dynasty

I've started to do something about the spacing issue.
https://code.launchpad.net/~grejppi/pantheon-files/pantheon-files
This should look fine at least, but my fix causes the entire area around file name label to be selectable. I don't know how to fix that. — grejppi

We should definitely fix the spacing and let's go ahead and bump the default icon size up to 64px instead of 48 --DanRabbit

Spacing and fixed grid size may be the answer. Having same properties, folders can look very different, depending on the filenames' length (with 8/6/4 units in a row, and a big white space on the right side):
http://funkyimg.com/i/FJRh.png
http://funkyimg.com/i/FJRi.png
http://funkyimg.com/i/FJRj.png
Finder can be a good example, of how it need to be (as I think). If you have 4 files in a row, with the current style properties and width, you have 4 files in a row in every folder you have
-- Sergei

Icon view is up to 64px and we've fixed rendering for transparent images and we don't upscale anymore. I'm going to call this implemented. --DanRabbit

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