Dnia 13-07-2005, śro o godzinie 17:20 +0200, Alexander Larsson napisał: > > Sorry if it has been discussed to death sometime in the 64 months since > > the feature was introduced -- but I've looked in the Nautilus Help, and > > I've Googled, and I can't find any explanation of why "Stretch Icon" > > exists. Perhaps if "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" were made more convenient > > (for example, trying to keep the selection visible at the new zoom level > > if it was visible at the previous zoom level, and setting the shortcut > > for "Zoom In" to Ctrl++ rather than Shift+Ctrl++), "Stretch Icon" and > > "Restore Icon's Original Size" could be removed, helping to trim down > > the menus. > > Its a really old feature, so I don't know the exact rationale for > introducing it, but talking to people about it its obvious that some > people do use it. Some use it to have a huge trash or other some icon on > the desktop, some people just want to have a nice big image of someone > they love, some people do crazy stuff like stretching an icon with > thumbnailed text in to get post-it style notes.
It's very useful. I personally use it to stretch the trash icon, and also used it at least once to prepare "there are only 3 things you can do with this machine" super-simplified UI. It's really cool for making some things on your desktop painfully obvious and unmissable. > I'm sure there are other uses people have found for it too. So am I. Cheers, Maciej -- Being really good at C++ is like being really good at using rocks to sharpen sticks. (Thant Tessman) -------- Maciej Katafiasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mathrick.org -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
