Hi Michael, Thanks for reviewing this. I discussed this with tomeu and the problem actually lies in the fact that icons take up as much horizontal space as they want (which is primarily governed by the text-label width below the icon). Longer text labels should be broken into two or more lines and the overall icon width (including the label) should be kept confined. I'll rework this patch and send it to the m.l. again. While we're discussing this, I also noticed that currently, there is no minimum row spacing between the icons. So if I were to display 4 or more rows, the layout would seem a little cramped vertically. You can test this in your environment with 1024x768 resolution by commenting the following line >> + self._table.set_row_spacings(style.GRID_CELL_SIZE) Should this be kept as is or should the above line be included (probably introducing a vertical scrollbar). -- Anish <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Michael Stone <<a href="mailto:michael@laptop.org">michael@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:27:46PM -0000, Anish Mangal wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> From: anishmangal2002 <<a href="mailto:anishmangal2002@gmail.com" target="_blank">anishmangal2002@gmail.com</a>> This patch sets the number of icon-columns in the control panel based on the screen resolution. This patch also sets the table row spacing to GRID_CELL_SIZE. </blockquote> </div> Anish, I like the basic idea underlying this patch but I'm not really satisfied with the current results. With 8 icons at 1024x768, I get two vertical columns of icons, each with four rows. Three rows scan be displayed at a time. With 8 icons at 800x600, I get one horizontal row of icons with four icons initially displayed. Neither of these layouts seems ideal. Thoughts? Michael P.S. - This problem actually reminds me rather strongly of the "how do we place activity icons?" problem that we had when activity icons were stuck on the frame. Do we have enough control panel entries now that we should think about re-using the home-view layout to place control panel icons too? P.P.S. - In any case, thanks for the patch! </blockquote></div>