Desktop Folders now restrict minimum size

Desktop folders.
Apple, and the world's technical press, celebrate, as they should all the great NEW features in Lion, and every OS upgrade,
for the all the new an innovative great features.
It is left to a small minority of people who need computers to get a day's work done, and whose voice is seldom heard by Apple,
to encounter the endless surprises in great features that are put in the trash by Apple for no good reason. Each OS upgrade
takes away great features, an Lion does this as well.
The topic at this email is desktop folders.
You could, until now, drag the folder border to encompass a single file name, whic I sometimes really like to do. NOW there is
an arbitrary and pointless SIZE LIMITATION to how small you can make an open folder on your desktop. The minimum size
is rather large, about the space for 10 files in list view.
Why Apple engineers so gleefully and unapologetically trash great features while celebrating what they call new features
is incomprehensible to me.
Folder views in Lion are the sloppiest and most unpredicatble so far.
For all of its celebrated innovation, Apple engineers also have a really long shadow of destruction and removal
that is not encouraging, that is in many ways rather offensive, as it flys in the face of common sense
and is a rotten spot in the endless posturing Apple makes about respect for their customers, in particular
the long-standing base of users that have stayed with Apple when it was almost down the tubes. I have been
an Apple user since OS 5 at least.

Widen the grid spacing; however, if the name is still too long, it will display like that.
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