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Nautilus - How to apply Zoom on the filenames? Not just on the thumbnails

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I'm looking to edit the way for nautilus to handle the zoom.

Since Ubuntu 13.04, when you use the zoom in nautilus it only changes the thumbnails/icons size, and the filename text stay the same.

Is there a way to make the zoom function change the size of the filename font?

In image: Differences in nautilus zoom, Ubuntu 11.04 / 13.04

I tried to look for a hidden option inside dconf-editor (org.gnome.nautilus.*) but nothing concur to what I'm looking for.

Any tips !?

Notes: I'm using a desktop version of Ubuntu as 'Tv' that I control from my couch, when I was on Ubuntu 11.04 I could simply zoom at 200% and read the filenames easily from the distance, but now, it's just the icons...

There is also the exemple of my father who have a poor sight, the old zoom function was perfect for him too.

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answered 2 Years ago farnic · Accepted Answer

You can try to edit the Nautilus source code to scale the font in the zoom like in Nautilus 3.4.

NOTE: In this example I'm running ubuntu 13.04 with nautilus (files) 3.6.3.
You can test this in a virtual machine to see if everything is OK.

First of all, I set the Nautilus Prefereces in "List View" as Default View and "200%" the zoom in List View Defaults.

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By default the result with no scale font would be:

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1) Make sure you have enable the Source code repository

Open the Ubuntu Software Center

In the Menu Bar choose Edit -> Software Sources. Click to enable "Source code repository".
Just in case I use the "Main Server" to Download.

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Open a Terminal window and type:

sudo apt-get update

2) In the Terminal type the following to install the necessary packages.

sudo apt-get install build-essential quilt

3) Install build dependencies.

sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus

4) Create a folder to download the source code.

mkdir ~/Downloads/src

cd ~/Downloads/src

5) Download the source code & Export variables.

apt-get source nautilus

export QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches

export EDITOR=gedit

6) Create the patch and Edit the source code.

cd nautilus-3.6.3/

quilt new my_custom_zoom.patch

quilt edit src/nautilus-list-view.c

After line 133 add:

static void   nautilus_list_view_scale_font_size                 (NautilusListView        *view,

                                                                  NautilusZoomLevel  new_level);

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After line 2506 add:

static void

nautilus_list_view_scale_font_size (NautilusListView *view, 

                    NautilusZoomLevel new_level)

{

    GList *l;

    static gboolean first_time = TRUE;

    static double pango_scale[7];

    int medium;

    int i;



    g_return_if_fail (new_level >= NAUTILUS_ZOOM_LEVEL_SMALLEST &&

              new_level <= NAUTILUS_ZOOM_LEVEL_LARGEST);



    if (first_time) {

        first_time = FALSE;

        medium = NAUTILUS_ZOOM_LEVEL_SMALLER;

        pango_scale[medium] = PANGO_SCALE_MEDIUM;

        for (i = medium; i > NAUTILUS_ZOOM_LEVEL_SMALLEST; i--) {

            pango_scale[i - 1] = (1 / 1.2) * pango_scale[i];

        }

        for (i = medium; i < NAUTILUS_ZOOM_LEVEL_LARGEST; i++) {

            pango_scale[i + 1] = 1.2 * pango_scale[i];

        }

    }



    g_object_set (G_OBJECT (view->details->file_name_cell),

              "scale", pango_scale[new_level],

              NULL);

    for (l = view->details->cells; l != NULL; l = l->next) {

        g_object_set (G_OBJECT (l->data),

                  "scale", pango_scale[new_level],

                  NULL);

    }

}

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After line 2569 add:

/* Scale text. */

nautilus_list_view_scale_font_size (view, new_level);

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Remove lines 3051 & 3052.

/* ensure that the zoom level is always set before settings up the tree view columns */

list_view->details->zoom_level = get_default_zoom_level ();

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7) Build the deb packages.

quilt refresh

fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage

8) Install the deb packages.

cd ..

sudo dpkg -i *deb

9) Finally you can Logout and Login to see the changes.

Result:

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NOTE: You can zoom in, zoom out with the Ctrl + Mouse Whell or with Ctrol++ & Ctrol+- keys.

Hope it helps.