[Thunar-dev] Location Bar ala Firefox

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>  The only thing
>>> I'd like to change about the mockup is the size of the icons in
>>> icon view. I'd prefer something closer to the default size of
>>> icons in windows explorer or the 'large' icons in rox. This is
>>> of course just a matter of taste and hasn't got much to do with
>>> the location bar...
>>
>> Hm, large icons in ROX are 64x64 IIRC, while the icon size in the 
>> thunar mockup is currently 48x48. I think we should support up to 3 
>> different icon sizes in Thunar, maybe 22x22 (with the name besides the 
>> icon), 48x48 and 64x64.
> 
> While we're talking about icon sizes...  The last time I looked at the 
> mockup, the treeview icons were a bit too large.  I think I dropped them 
> to 16x16 and it looked a lot better - basically, my opinion is that the 
> icons should be small enough that the vertical spacing between rows of 
> text shouldn't expand from what you'd have if you just had rows of 
> text.  At the smaller sizes, the icons become less useful, of course, 
> but I think (for the treeview anyway) the icons themselves aren't all 
> that useful, since 99+% of them will just be the same folder icon.

It's 16 now (I think it was Jens who changed that).

> Actually...  With regard for the smallest icon size in the icon view:  
> would you consider implementing something like what I did for the 
> desktop menu?  Basically it queries Pango for the max character height 
> based on the default font and font size, and then picks the closest 
> standard icon size that fits in that height.  I think it needs a little 
> bit of a fudge factor, and my implementation is a little off sometimes, 
> but it can probably be done properly with a little (more) thought (than 
> I put into it).

I thought about using the default Gtk+ way with registering custom 
GtkIconSize's using sane defaults.

>    -brian

greets,
Benedikt