Can I make icons on desktop smaller (gnome)?

[Garrett LeSage]

On Mar 11, 2004, at 3:03 PM, thedogfarted wrote:

> go to nautilus preferences and set 75% zoom for example, probably 
> you'll want to set desktop font smalle, too


This is what I do on my laptop running Fedora.  It works great!

In addition, I set the panel to a smaller size and also use the special 
GIMP gtkrc file for reduced-size widgets (well, at least some are 
smaller).  The gtkrc file resides in the GIMP dotfile directory and 
simply needs to be edited to remove the comment octothorps (#) from the 
front of the appropriate lines.

It would be nice to be able to have smaller GTK+ widgets in general 
too.  I imagine at least some of it could be controlled by the theme 
(although some of it would probably be outside the scope).  Perhaps I 
should look into this a bit sometime.

Garrett