[ale] gnome desktop: icon size control

[Jim Kinney]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jim Popovitch<jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 22:46, Tim Watts<timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm setting up a Gnome desktop for a friend who likes to collect all her
>> pictures, docs etc. on the desktop. That's fine except that the thumbnail
>> icons (jpeg, bmp & pdf) are unreasonably large (about 1" square). Is there a
>> way to control the size as a general policy -- other than turning off
>> thumbnails? I see how I can do this on a case by case basis but that's not
>> good enough. (This is on ubuntu jaunty.)
>
> Open Nautilus (Places -> Home Folder) and select Edit -> Preferences.
>
Hmm. That only changes the icons within a nautilus window for me (F11
64bit). To change the desktop icon sizes I have to whack in gconf (why
did gnome people think a database like windows freaking registry was a
good idea???)

> -Jim P.
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