Improve sidebar size in Nautilus with font scaling enabled


I use font scaling from Gnome Tweaks (that font scaling in Gnome 50 will be available to set from settings - great job!!). I set font scaling to 1.5x because I have big resolution and I don’t want to use fractional scaling.
As you can see on the screen, settings sidebar looks very good with that font scaling but Nautilus sidebar looks weird and too narrow, also menu items in settings have very good size but items in Nautilus are too small.
It seems like Setting uses new type, modern sidebar and Nautilus uses old type of sidebar?
Almost every app with that kind of sidebar has very good look with this font scaling except Nautilus, it’s only app that looks weird with this font scaling.

Please fix this and make Nautilus’s sidebar looks the same as in other apps :slight_smile:

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Files sidebar was copied from GTK a while ago, that’s why it’s not the same size as Adwaita. We don’t want to blindly copy-paste everything from Adwaita widgets, as the sidebar in Files doesn’t serve the same purpose.

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