How to change icon size in Nautilus sidebar

While we're waiting for the Nautilus sidebar to categorize items displayed with headings, we can make the sidebar a little more beautiful by changing a little code ourselves.
On the Ubuntu forum is a how-to guide that allows you to change the icon size in the Places sidebar in Nautilus filemanager. See modified Nautilus screenshot below:



It requires getting a bit technical and it will take some time. You should be able to uninstall this simply by reinstalling nautilus package with Synaptic, but use it at your own risk! The original how-to guide was written for Feisty Fawn(in 2005), but a single step can be altered for Interpid Ibex.

Read the whole thread here...

Nautilus Places Reorganization

Back in December I wrote about how the Nautilus places menu looks very cluttered. If you also think a change is needed, you can post your opinions on bugzilla on Bug 508404 – "Sidebar should categorize items displayed with headings":

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508404

Nautilus sidebar needs a cleanup

Hylke Bons descripes himself as being a consistent user interface experience junkie. Back in November he posted a mockup of the Nautilus sidebar. The current sidebar looks very cluttered, so let's hope the gnome UI developers will clean it up a bit.



I know that you can report usability-bugs in the Gnome bugzilla - if this one isn't reported yet, it should be.