A look at GNOME 2.14, comparison to KDE

[Janne Ojaniemi]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:53, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:17, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> > symmetry here? Instead of having 4 icons in the first line and 2 in the
> > second, what if we had 3 icons in both lines? If the user resizes the
> > window, or adds stuff (folders, files etc.), the app would try to
> > maintain symmetry. Of course, such symmetry wouldn't be always possible,
> > but still.
>
> this breaks down very quickly, however. it's only in a few situations where
> such symmetry can be achieved or is even noticeable. so it's questionable
> whether it's worth complexifying the code for these few cases?

Yep, it might not be worthwhile in cases where there are lots of icons in the 
view. But in cases where there are only few icons (like in the screenshot) it 
might make sense.