Bug 161247

Summary:	Align to grid doesn't work
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Sam Grinstead <sgrintad>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Sam Grinstead 2008-04-25 01:18:30 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

There is a checkbox option under the right-click->Configure Desktop menu to align icons to a grid.   However, it doesn't work, there is no grid, and icons just pile to the left side of the screen like they're irregularly sized tiles.

Reproduce it by checking the box and moving an icon so it's not on a grid.   It's still not on a grid.

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2008-04-25 01:22:49 UTC

There's no kdesktop in KDE 4, but plasma.

Comment 2 Christopher Blauvelt 2008-04-25 01:25:46 UTC

Icons directly on the desktop are phased out and won't be in KDE 4.1

Comment 3 Sam Grinstead 2008-04-25 23:56:27 UTC

Wow, are you serious?

KDE just finished jumping the shark then.

Dumbed down lack of configurations like Gnome: check
Unintuitive "Desktop is not a folder interface:" check
Lack of consistant design: check
Old, useful interfaces (kcontrol 3.X, the old menu style) replaced with much more time and click intensive "wannabe web browser" designs: check

Yuck.

Comment 4 Christopher Blauvelt 2008-04-26 00:27:25 UTC

A folder-view applet will be available that can take up the whole desktop and have a z-index that will make it behind everything else.  In effect, a desktop view.  Icons just won't be seperate applets any more.

Comment 5 Sam Grinstead 2008-04-26 02:25:51 UTC

Ok, thanks for the clarification.