There's no easy way to change the default icon size for one folder

[Joseba Garcia Etxebarria]

I use a laptop computer at a 1280x800 resolution. With this, icons on my desktop are just too small (Using NuoveXT icon theme). Of course, I can manually resize the icons, but this is not ideal. Maybe a per-folder option (or just an option which only affects the icons on the desktop) could be included in the nautilus preferences app to configure the icon size for each folder.
Also, it would be nice that nautilus told me somewhere how big the icon for a particular item is, as it's now impossible to know if two icons have the same size (maybe in the Properties -> Basic tab?).

Also, great work!

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your report. I personally think that the -/+ buttons on each nautilus dialog are sufficient for that. Anybody else?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Daniel, there is no such buttons for the desktop. Is that issue specific to the desktop?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ok Séb, disregard my comment then.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Hm, I can't try NuevoXT. It has a index.desktop instead of index.theme

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

The software developers have a bug open (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148293) which includes "no icon zoom on desktop"