The preferences window is too tall, redundant functionality with icon view and compact layout
Little nugget of fail I found in nautilus yesterday… Essentially, the icon view preferences has a use of “compact” which is slightly different to the compact layout. The text beside icons in the icon view preferences leads to effectively the same thing as the compact layout except it scrolls vertically rather than horizontally which is a bad way to scroll in a horizontal icon/text layout.
The options are useless and the compact layout is the correct way to present this feature. Having all of these preferences in this dialog increases the height of the window to 625 pixels on my theme which is far too tall.
Eventually we can also remove the tree options, as they don’t apply to a view they apply to a sidepane therefore they’re in the wrong tab anyway. Also this could be removed as an option completely leaving a gconf key for distributions to configure.
