Reducing the horizontal width/spacing between files to utilize more space

[enriquezmark36]

The spacing between the file and folders in a regular window, which is supposedly more than enough to fit an icon of a file or folder, is quite large and might be a bit annoying if one have to look to a lots of files with thumbnails.(Illus.1) Zooming down doesn't help since the gap is still quite large by comparison plus the icons shrink down too.
The current one looks neat but wouldn't it be better if it can be reduced or changed via the code or the settings?

Illus.1

[ManIVIctorious]

+1, in dolphin by default the icons are bigger than the ones in nemo, but on same space dolphin has 6 entries per row, where nemo has 4

[joe1970]

+1, I agree, this behaviorto leave that much space unused is strange. There is however the compact layout for the icon view. It can be toggled in "arrange Icons" in the context menue. It seems to pack icons next to each other as long as there is still space in a line left. The result is a nicely packed view, but icons are not arranged in a grid any more.

[ManIVIctorious]

@joe1970 i know about this one, but that destroys the alignment of the following row. I'd like to see a better alignment or an option to change the spacing manually (doesn't even have to be exposed, a gsettings call would be enough for me)

[enriquezmark36]

@ManIVIctorious, @joe1970, After deciphering the code for about 3 days there seem to be a way to reduce the width and make use of the space just like: (up - original , down - patched)

It's a work-around and it's summarized to this patch: http://pastebin.com/raw/hAVjxJYr, and since I really don't know C, I copy-pasted a lot from the source.
The patch will create 3 options and can be found at org->nemo->icon-view: icon-width, custom-icon-width and custom-max-text-width.

[JosephMcc]

I would be okay with a bit less spacing as long as it wasn't too cramped but having so many options seems a bit over the top. If it's going to be changed, why not just change it and call it good?

[enriquezmark36]

Yeah, you're right. Too much options are confusing; it's also the reason I'm having a difficulty on plasma 5. I originally plan to add only 1 option as there was supposedly no "custom" options since its a bit complicated but will enable someone to manually tune the width even further.

[enriquezmark36]

I created a fork where the patch is applied, it's in here: https://github.com/enriquezmark36/nemo.
When does one create a pull request? I am a real noob in git.

[Vahan86]

@JosephMcc, can we mark this issue as a feature request?

[fennecinspace]

@enriquezmark36 where do i put the patch .. ?

[enriquezmark36]

@LogX7 you could check this pull request, #1095 and download all 3 commits?
7bd14d30cabbce41041cde932c80d905fd57b8cc.patch
8f62a2e9ebc32fe685e7a14c344e09be723a915f.patch
596d6499a4e3f5987b78d702beba5e75a19befa2.patch
And, patch it in that order. I think you could do a
patch -p1 -i <path/to/patch> on the source directory to apply it?
Really sorry, that this is about 3 years old so I have sort of forgotten how these patches work.

[fennecinspace]

@enriquezmark36 it asks for the file to patch ...

[enriquezmark36]

@LogX7 Yeah, I think I got it. Sorry to say but the patches won't work as it is right now :(.
I'll restore my fork back again and try to rebase the patches to the newer master branch.