Collecting and fixing pet peeve bugs

Leon sdl.web at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 19:51:11 UTC 2006


Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 07:38:17PM +0100, Leon wrote:
>> * Desktop accommodate much less icons than XP.
>> With a screen resolution 1280x800, in gnome the desktop can only
>> contain 72 icons while in Windows XP it can do 170 icons i.e XP is
>> 2.36 times as efficient as gnome in using desktop real estate.
>
> Um, yeah, I think that's a feature. :)
>
> But anyway, you can also address it -- go to the Preferences dialog in any
> Nautilus window and change the default zoom level.
>

OK. Setting the zoom level to 75% reduce the gap between gnome and
XP. Now only the long title annoyance remains. 

>
> -- 
> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>

-- 
Leon




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