Make default thumbnail size the same as the icon size

[6205]

By default have all icon in nautilus file manager size 48pixels, but thumbnails are double-sized 96pixels large, what looks very inconsistant and somehow chaotic if you have various files and folders in one place. IMHO thumbnals should be the same size like icons = 48pixels big (easy gconf-editor tweak) It would look much better and professional this way.

[Steffen Banhardt (steffenbanhardt)]

I can confirm this behavior and agree that it is inconsistant but the problem would also be to see the difference between an icon and a thumbnail. The way it is now it is obvious by size if you see the file itself or just an icon. I like it the way it is - but that's just my two cents...

[6205 (6205-reactivated-deactivatedaccount)]

I am not afraid that users will not able to see the difference between an icon and a thumbnail and IMHO it does not matter. Consistancy is more important i think..

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I've linked this report to the upstream report and am marking it as triaged since the triaging work has been done.
Maybe it would be good to fix this in Ubuntu already for Lucid to provide a consistent user interface, regardless of what upstream is doing since there hasn't been responded to the upstream bug report yet.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

is it a simple task to be considered a papercut?

[Endolith (endolith)]

Isn't this by design? Thumbnails *should* be bigger than icons. They're thumbnails.

If a row consists only of icons, it's narrower, so that screen real estate isn't wasted with giant icons when small icons are equally legible. I believe Windows 7 does the same thing, and it should be left as is.

[Mathieu Leplatre (mathieu.leplatre)]

This can be very annoying when the user wants to select some files, since the icons are somehow "moving down".

IHMO, it is a real user-interaction bug :
* Bob opens the folder of a SD card with photos he took with his camera.
* His 100 photos are big and the support has slow performances, the thumbnails appear slowly.
* Bob wants to select the last 20 photos, and scrolls down.
* While he has now reached the bottom, he is about to draw a selection.
* More thumbnails are loading, he scrollbar goes up, the last files are not visible anymore.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

This issue is most certainly a valid papercut and considering the high-profile of this bug, aesthetics and the very valid points made in comment 7 I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Medium'.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

In the upstream report A. Walton said: "The default is a more reasonable 64x64 after discussion on IRC. Closing." He marked the bug reported as Fix Released.

I'm not sure whether that size will be used for both thumbnails and icons, or just thumbnails, I'm waiting for an answer to that.

[Vish (vish)]

commit :
http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=b0d808de8c8d1be6b8a4403fc587cc032612027a

This was changed after being discussed during the Nautilus UI meetings. Anything smaller makes it really tough to actually see the content of the thumbnail itself.
However, there is also a proposal to increase the size of the icons too.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I wouldn't regard this bug as fixed until both sizes are equal.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.30.1-1ubuntu2

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nautilus (1:2.30.1-1ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * Backport upstream changes
  * debian/patches/git_correct_delay_logic.patch:
    - git change to fix a logic error in the directory loading code which
      create a delay to have some shortcut actions to work after loading
      directory (lp: #390662)
  * debian/patches/git_correct_display_name.patch:
    - correctly display the applications names
  * debian/patches/git_correctly_set_default.patch:
    - correctly set the new default software when this one is changed
      (lp: #550004)
  * debian/patches/git_default_thumbnails.patch:
    - set default thumbnails to 64 for better layouting (lp: #497728)
  * debian/patches/git_browser_title_cleaning.patch:
    - clean the title of the file browser dialogs (lp: #439227)
  * debian/patches/git_clean_by_name_rename.patch:
    - 'Change "Clean Up by Name" to "Organize Desktop by Name"' (lp: #388949)
  * debian/patches/git_double_click_launcher.patch
    - 'Ignore > 2 clicks in the icon container' (lp: #389663)
  * debian/patches/git_ctrlq_close.patch:
    - 'Change 'Close all Windows' shortcut to Ctrl+Q.' (lp: #563226)
  * debian/patches/git_store_session_passwords.patch:
    - store the mounts passwords for the session (lp: #392589)
  * debian/patches/git_no_double_browse_entry.patch:
    - don't list a "browser" menu items in browser mode it's the default
      (lp: #388091)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:11:29 +0200

[Vish (vish)]

Marking papercut as fixed as well , since the difference between the 64 and 48px is just 8px on either side , which does not cause a problem of icons moving on loading images as previously. And increasing the general icon layout is not a simple task , it needs more changes to the layout in nautilus than what can be considered a simple task.