Since the last update, the spacing between icons in Dolphin has been decidedly too small.
How can the spacing / grid size be reset to a more comfortable level?
This only changes the size of the symbols, but not their distance from each other.
Personally those look too far apart. I’d honestly cut that to a 3rd of that.
I don’t know what this is supposed to tell me and even less how this is supposed to help with my problem.
How about increasing the Label Width to Large?
I suggest that because on this thread, someone had the opposite preference to yours - i.e. they wanted the icons closer together, and they achieved that by setting Label Width to Small.
Of course, I’ve already tried that, too—it looks like crap, and not even remotely the way it did before this update. The steps are too big.
I don’t get it: In KDE, you can tweak every damn thing however you like — you can tinker with it endlessly. Why don’t they give us the option to decide these things ourselves, things that aren’t exactly useless? Why do we have to put up with every little whim a developer decides to foist on us? That’s more the GNOME way of doing things.
Not even remotely accurate. The KDV devs in my book have done a great job over all. Not just giving us features we’ll use, but refining those features when they see a better and more polished to achieve the same outcome.
No. They haven’t. The last update is an avalanche of “what the heck and why”? I am sorry to be this blunt, but the OP is right:
a) The label width medium is way too narrow, the label width large is ridiculously far apart. Why not having a scale slider here? And who quality tested that before being greenlit?! The icon view is now unusable.
b) The location bar (if not included in the header) has now a 90s looking border around it and a greyish background. Might even be a bug?
c) Selecting icons is now appaling: Gone is the beautiful selection mask below icons, with rounded corners, transparency and changing font colors from black to white, when the background has a darker color. What we get now is rectangle with solid colors. Why?
d) And to round it all up, the label distance is still not synchronized with save or file selection dialogue windows.
To make one thing clear: Open Source means volunteer work and we must be grateful for that. But it is still valid to ask, why something already perfect has to turn bad just for the sake of change.
Take a look (especially the files at the bottom with longer names): After
Before
While there are some minor issues the overall switch to Wayland has been pretty smooth. There is no getting around that. Now that said a lot of issues that do crop up usually have to do with ones video card not playing nicely with the compositor and causing issues.
There really is no reason for one’s system not to look like they want it to look with Plasma with the shear amount of options available.
Yeah… we all love Plasma, that’s why we are here. But what has the switch to Wayland or Plasma as a customizable UI to do with the bugs introduced in KDE Dolphin 26.08.0 ? Please stick to topic.
Yes there are issues with Dolphin now, but they are being worked on. Before you tell me to stay on subject take your own advice.
OP: “Since the last update, the spacing between icons in Dolphin has been decidedly too small.”
D O L P H I N. We are talking about KDE Dolphin here. Now please, stay out of it.
@Dagrod : I have filed a bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524699
That is your opinion which you’re entitle to, but again please stay on topic before telling other to stay on topic.
@EatMyShorts You really should eat your shorts …
Just for clarification are you using Union style? I dont know what exactly caused this in Dolphin (havent been working on it for a while) but if its something Union related I could take a look.
I have no doubt this is the same issue as the thumbnail issue. It’s just that the OP seems to not use thumbnails all the time, so they don’t see it as a thumbnail issue, and instead sees it as a spacing issue.
This issue seems not just related, but one in the same.
what was causing it was
which, among lots of other changes, changed src/views/dolphinitemlistview.cpp
from
itemWidth = 48 + IconsModeSettings::textWidthIndex() * 64 * fontFactor * zoomFactor;
to
itemWidth = 16 + IconsModeSettings::textWidthIndex() * 64 * fontFactor * zoomFactor;
Both are magic numbers, both are bad. But changing something like this after years is less than optimal, I can confirm that a good amount of files now have illegible names here, and changing the spacing setting to “large” is quite a big waste of screen estate.
Given the nature of the change, this is unrelated to the Qt style used, the font used or any setting, they simply changed one magic number to another, reducing spacing (regardless of setting) by 32 pixels.
So what I suggest, to make everyone happy, is to add an in-between setting that simply corresponds to what we had before (i.e. adding the 32 lost pixel back). That would also not be “make everything configurable” or “add a new setting”, it simply adds an additional value to an already existing setting to restore the behaviour that we had for years. Or, if that can’t be done, I’d actually advocate for reverting this specific change (not the whole commit, mind, just that specific line)
I built local rpms with that one line reverted and I can confirm that the old spacing is then restored.
This confirms what I just typed in the other linked thread. I propose someone merge the threads, as they are not separate issues.
Ah that thing. Dang. Yeah it was changed to be more “neutral” with non-breeze styles but yeah we can change that back, sure.
Very sorry about this issue. I’ll write up a fix for it asap.