File and directories names don't scale when zooming in the main panel

Submitted by YuriNeri

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Link to original bug (#15790)

Description

Created attachment 8851 thunar viewer when zoomed in at max, file names text size doesn't change.

As title - File and directories names(text) don't scale when zooming in the main panel. Icon size scales fine. See attached picture.

Attachment 8851, "thunar viewer when zoomed in at max, file names text size doesn't change.":

Alexander Schwinn @alexxcons said:

Agreed, Would be nice to scale text size together with the zoom level

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mentioned in issue #950 (closed)

marked #950 (closed) as a duplicate of this issue

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mentioned in issue #1143 (closed)

Note: Nemo, Caja (and probably Nautilus) do it this way:

• in List view, text changes size in both zoom directions
• in Icon view, it only changes size when unzooming (slightly smaller names when icons are tiny)

...which makes a lot of sense to me. You don't want huge text in a gallery view but why else would you zoom in list view other than to magnify the text?

...which makes a lot of sense to me. You don't want huge text in a gallery view

In gallery view (!303) there will be no text at all. You probably refer to icon view ?

If so, why not? To me, that design makes not much sense and is inconsistent. How do you know if "zoom" was used by the user to better see the pics or to better read the filenames?

in Icon view, it only changes size when unzooming (slightly smaller names when icons are tiny)

I only see that for Nemo. Caja just crops the text for smaller zoom levels.

I only see that for Nemo. Caja just crops the text for smaller zoom levels.

I tested again and confirm Caja does it too. It only happens at a specific zoom level and it's subtle but noticeable.

In gallery view (!303) there will be no text at all. You probably refer to icon view ?

Sorry, I didn't notice this draft and didn't know that the "Gallery" view is meant to become a new mode. I used the terms "Icon" and "Gallery" to refer to the same mode (Icon View)

If so, why not? To me, that design makes not much sense and is inconsistent. How do you know if "zoom" was used by the user to better see the pics or to better read the filenames?

In Icon view, I believe they made it behave this way because we usually prefer large and condensed thumbnails while still having file names in view but not with unnecessarily large text (at least that's my preference and my assumption for why they made this choice).

Very large text seems more to me like an accessibility feature, which I think would be better as an opt-in feature rather than the default.

It may be a tricky request which needs input from multiple users to make a firm decision.

mentioned in issue #117