Bug 26456 - desktop drag-n-drop random location
Summary: desktop drag-n-drop random location
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kdesktop
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
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Reported: 2001-05-31 05:18 UTC by Jonathan Cromwell
Modified: 2009-01-02 20:17 UTC (History)
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Description Jonathan Cromwell 2001-05-31 05:04:48 UTC 
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kdesktop
Version:           KDE 2.1.1 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

If I drag a file from Konquerer to my desktop the file icon does not appear on my desktop in a predictable location. Sometimes it appears in the lower left corner and sometimes it appears at the end of my row of icons.

Both of these locations are incorrect the icon should appear in the exact location on the desktop that I dragged the file to. If I only have 10% of my desktop visible (the rest is under a bunch of open windows) its bothersome to have to close windows and go searching for the (seemingly) random location where my drag-n-drop appears.

Regards - Jon
 

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
Comment 1 Stefan Gehn 2002-12-15 13:45:23 UTC 
Also note that if you have icons aligned to grid dropping links fron konq onto 
kdesktop sometimes results in having two icons over eachother (for me the 
link-icon appeared in the lower left corner hiding parts of another icons, it's not 
even aligned to the grid). 
I won't call this a wishlist item but a real bug because it's not sane for any user. If 
I don't have any aut align/sort turned on then I do NOT want kdesktop to touch 
my icons, especially not newly created ones. 
BTW, this is on CVS with kdelibs/base compiled around KDE3.1RC5.
Comment 2 Waldo Bastian 2003-05-08 13:48:47 UTC 
Subject: kdebase/kdesktop

CVS commit by waba: 

CCMAIL: 26456-done@bugs.kde.org
Properly save position of drops, using the info reported back by the 
KIO::Jobs. (BR26456)


  M +42 -57    kdiconview.cc   1.75
  M +8 -12     kdiconview.h   1.23
Comment 3 Ferdinand Gassauer 2003-07-12 08:05:43 UTC 
does not work in CVS HEAD any more 
same problem as described above
Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2003-10-11 15:34:47 UTC 
Subject: Re: desktop drag-n-drop random location

Thank you for your bug report.
The bug that you reported has been identified and has been fixed in the
latest development (CVS) version of KDE. The bug report will be closed.
Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2003-10-11 21:29:22 UTC 
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.
Comment 6 Michał Kosmulski 2004-04-16 14:41:14 UTC 
This bug seems to be back as of kde 3.2.1. When I drag-and-drop copy files from konqueror to the desktop, they appear in more or less random locations on the desktop instead of exactly where I drop them.
Comment 7 Michał Kosmulski 2004-04-19 12:28:45 UTC 
One more observation: the location of dropped files is random only if the icons are thumbnails (file previews are turned on). When the icon is not a thumbnail, it  is positioned correctly, in the place it is dropped.
Comment 8 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:17:42 UTC 
Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.