| Summary: | Default icon grid doesn't leave enough horizontal and vertical space for file and folder titles | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | Folder | Assignee: | Eike Hein <hein> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kde, plasma-bugs, simonandric5 |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | Spacing, title width, and max number of lines in Folder view and Dolphin | ||
I can look into the titles maybe, but the padding won't change - it was actually reduced twice, because of great repeated user clamoring both times, and people are much happier now with the tighter grid. I can understand that. We had the same problem at Apple for more than a decade; people always complained that the padding was too high. Eventually we solved it with a slider you can use to change the padding between icons, which makes sense to me because this is the kind of thing where you're never going to please everybody with an immutable setting. Please no slider.. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 379432 *** |
Created attachment 110696 [details] Spacing, title width, and max number of lines in Folder view and Dolphin Files and Folders in Folder View always look really cramped because long titles very easily get split up into multiple lines and then elided. The behavior here is a bit too aggressive, I think. I see a lot of user complaints about it. Part of the problem is the default maximum number of lines (2), but another part is that the width available for titles is so narrow that long-ish words often get chopped up into multiple lines right in the middle. For the same sized icons, Dolphin's icon view offers more horizontal space and slightly larger padding between icons. See attached screenshot from my own machine.