More space in Files grid view

[kra-mo]

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Feature description

As it stands, depending on screen aspect ratio, about as much items can be displayed using the grid view as the list view. This negates one of the potential benefits of the view, which is that more items can be visible on the screen at once. Even in the current, fairly large state, items also do not handle ellipsization of names well.

I'm proposing:

1. Decreasing the size of thumbnails by ~20%.
2. Decreasing padding inside items by ~50%.
3. Making file names wrap for 2-3 lines to allow for longer names if possible.
4. Making names ellipsize at the middle instead of the end. This would help make the common case of names that only differ at the end (eg. "Photo 1", "Photo 2") be distinct even when they ellipsize.

Any of these would be nice on their own as well :)

[susnux]

Decreasing the size of thumbnails by ~20%.

IMHO most users I know that use the grid view use it because it provides large previews.
Its mostly used when having folders with images and videos to quickly gather an overview on the photos available.

[kra-mo]

I can see that, but in that case, there could be other considerations:

• Thumbnails are not relevant for folders. Google Drive for example has big thumbnails in grid view but it still shows folders as small. Maybe we could also do this?
• This setting is not remembered per-folder, but is instead global. This is probably nice for simplicity, but I've also seen cloud storage providers with a dedicated gallery view that is enabled automatically for media-heavy folders. This also may be something we could do?