You may want to align the location bar with "Places" to gain some space without messing up the whole GUI.
Small/Big icons can be set in GNOME preferences so that's not a problem. Let big icons by default for the average user. Advanced users can reduce theme.
For the record, here is a Dolphin (KDE's file browser) screenshot ; blog.rom1v. com/wp- content/ uploads/ 2009/06/ dolphin- gnome.png launchpadlibrar ian.net/ 27797607/ default_ nautilus. png )
Dolphin with Ubuntu theme (to focus on GUI's elements et not on theme) http://
(default nautilus : http://
You may want to align the location bar with "Places" to gain some space without messing up the whole GUI.
Small/Big icons can be set in GNOME preferences so that's not a problem. Let big icons by default for the average user. Advanced users can reduce theme.