Can I make icons on desktop smaller (gnome)?

[Shi-Ming Chen]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 03:55, John Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:24:46 -0500
> Adam Voigt <adam at kotisprop.com> wrote:
> 
> > Absolutely, right click on the icon, and go to "Stretch Icon", and
> > then click on one of the corners and drag to make the icon smaller or
> > larger. If you want to go back, you can right click on the modified
> > icon and go to "Restore Original".
> 
> Is there a way to make this change globally, rather than having to
> resize each icon individually?
> 
> And how about the icon spacing on the desktop?  It seems that at
> 1024x768 I can only get four columns of icons before they start
> overlapping.
> -- 
> 
> -John (JohnThompson at new.rr.com)
> 
I think the point is that the width of file name under the icon is too
wide. No matter how I stretch the icon, the width of file name is
unchanged.
If we can change the width, and it just show some words in the beginning
(like thunderbird-0.5-i...), then we can get these icons closer, and we
can put more icons on the desktop.

-- 
Shi-Ming Chen