Nautilus padding gets scaled. Feature or bug?

[geoken]

When the icons are zoomed in Nautilus the padding is scaled as well. The screenshot below demonstrates the behavior. Thunar is on the right and it maintains it's padding while Nautilus is on the left with it's padding scaled. Compact mode in Nautilus helps, but it also introduces new problems since it causes the columns to be misaligned.

Basically my question is whether this is a bug/oversight, or whether it's a feature?

[D-EJ915]

nautilus has always had ridiculous icon spacing

[aimran]

nautilus has always had ridiculous icon spacing

+1 on that, which is why I don't feel "right" on Gnome. I love KDE icon management. It's all personal I guess :P

IMO the best icon management is XP. I don't mind letting my desktop run messy ;)

[seatex]

To fix the wide icon spacing in Nautilus...

Open Nautilus.

Click on Edit, Preferences

Click to check "Use compact layout", under Icon View Defaults.

Problem solved. :)

[bikeboy]

If only there was an option to also conctenate file names - preferably on a per folder basis. It would work really nicely with compact layout. Some of my files have deliberately long names which mess with the spacing a lot. I tend to use Detail view for folders containing those files, but it's not always ideal.

[D-EJ915]

To fix the wide icon spacing in Nautilus...

Open Nautilus.

Click on Edit, Preferences

Click to check "Use compact layout", under Icon View Defaults.

Problem solved. :)
then they're not aligned to a grid, though.