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Forum Discussion
Improvements to Grid View display
Please implement a view option that displays photos in a nicer more space efficient way. Right now the best option is grid layout and this cant even be set as default for shared links
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hi there Marley63 - thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on this with us.
I've noted your feedback in our system, but just to be precise, could you let us know if you had any specific suggestions about the view options you mentioned?
Let us know more and we'll take it from there.
Something as simple as a grid view that minimizes white space and resizes to fill the window (with a little outside border) would be great!
Make it allow be able to adaptively change the number of rows/columns to fit the window beyond just 4 columns.
Perhaps give an option to hide the file name or just have it only appear when you hover over the image. As with the current gridview where a download button that appears when you hover over an image, the file name could appear at the same time.
The current grid view has an obscene amount of white space for images and they all end up small and hard to see even with the window expanded to fit the screen. Screen space that could be image space is wasted with the tan border around each image, a big white box for the file name, and then a large margins between images. Then more space is wasted on wide screens because the view maxes out at 4 columns and then just leaves tons of white space on either side.
Simply maximizing the space that the images themselves fill with minimal distractions and elegant magins would be an amazing improvement.
If possible within the gallery view allowing a default of disabling the extra prompts to have guests sign in or create an account would be awesome as well. The popup enlarges the header and also wastes space and is an unnecessary distraction for my customers who just want to be able to download their content from the gallery.
The login or sign up window that pops up when users click download is obnoxious!!! It has a tiny greyed out "or continue with download only" option at the bottom. I have to include a warning about this in my email to all my customers so they don't get confused and come to me complaining that Dropbox is forcing them to make an account. It would be great if I as the admin could set a default for my links to have this popup disabled so that clicking download just immediately downloads the content.
I appreciate your attention to this issue I am a over 14 year dropbox user and longtime subscriber, I contract with 10 other photographers who also all hold independent dropbox subscriptions and we would all benefit greatly from this simple update. Recently I have been strongly considering switching services because of my frustration with customer complaints over these issues. I have been actively looking into other options but would prefer to stick with Dropbox if these improvements could be made.
