Gnome desktop icon description wrapping [Solved]

How is it possible to make the icon descriptions in gnome desktop not wrap so early? For instance, the name "Evolution" is wrapped just before "n":
Evolutio
n
And "Thunderbird" is wrapped as follows:
Thunde
rbird
Solution
It was a matter of opening "Places" --> desktop --> menu Edit --> Preferences and choosing a larger zoom for the Icon View Defaults (I had it set in 50% but obviously 75% is better, now only the "d" of "Thunderbird" is wrapped, but 100% is too big for my screen).

hmm, i'm not sure what could have happened
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