Finder sidebar _icon size_

Is there any way to increase the finder window sidebar icons?
I hate leaning in and squinting because I can't increase the size. So my home window stays in icon mode and that's a waste of a perfectly good sidebar
tips?
cli prompt?
Bueller?

Alain ZIMMERMANN wrote:
Is it possible to change the size of the Sidebar icons ?
No.
Is it possible to reduce the width of of this Sidebar to just the icons ?
You can adjust the width of the sidebar the same way you adjust the width of any column. click on the divider and drag it left or right. But you can't make it smaller that certain minimal size. Also, you can get rid of it altogether by clicking on the little oval in the upper left corner of the finder window.
(This could be done easily in 10.4 ! )
I've looked in Preferences already .None !
May be some command line to the "hidden" preferences of the Finder ?
Can somebody help me ?
Regards,
Alain

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