Bug 62046

Summary: moving icons on desktop does not work as expected
Product: [Unmaintained] kdesktop Reporter: tnagy <tnagy256>
Component: generalAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description tnagy 2003-08-03 03:26:34 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.1a)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          gcc 
OS:          Linux

Moving an icon by a few millimeters on the desktop or in konqueror (for example 5 millimeters) does not move it actually : the icon comes back to its old position. 

A small translation of an icon thus requires a drag to a corner of the desktop, and then a move back to the wanted position.

It is in fact annoying, and creates a feeling a frustration (I can't move my icon as I want - the icon resists and wants to stay to its original position).

The option "align to grid" does not actually solve this problem : it sometimes makes big icons overlap (or the position of some icons is just not satisfactory), and it actually creates situations where the user needs to move the icons by a few millimeters.

I suggest to make improve the accuracy of the icon drag-and-drop, and reduce the gap to 2 millimeters maximum or to provide a slider to configure this accuracy.
Comment 1 tnagy 2003-08-04 23:06:14 UTC 
It is even worse in kde cvs (20030804)
Comment 2 David Faure 2003-08-13 14:33:38 UTC 
Subject: Re:  New: moving icons on desktop does not work as expected

> Moving an icon by a few millimeters on the desktop or in konqueror (for example 5 millimeters) does not move it actually : the icon comes back to its old position. 

There's a Qt patch for this already, in qt-copy.
Not sure if/when it will be applied to Qt.
See qt-copy/patches/0021-qiconview-dragalittle.patch
Comment 3 Helge Hielscher 2004-02-06 17:00:55 UTC 
sound like a dup of bug 35203
Comment 4 Benoit Walter 2004-04-12 21:24:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35203 ***
Comment 5 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:22:37 UTC 
Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.