From kde Wed Sep 09 09:42:23 2009 From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:42:23 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] folderview lock icons Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=125248944409453 Rick Miles posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:10:09 +1000 as excerpted: > On kde-4.2.4 I note that when I position all icons so that there is no > up/down scroll bar and lock them in place, that after a couple of log > ins the icons creep upwards and the scroll bar returns. Is this normal? You stated the issue well enough, but you neglected to mention the location of the icons you're talking about. Are you talking about a folderview plasmoid on the normal desktop view, or the folderview desktop view (was that in 4.2 or was it added for 4.3?), or on the panel, or in an application other that plasma? Never-the-less, I know there's still bugs in that regard in plasma, up thru current 4.3.1. The one I'm aware of is that while panels can be set very small (short on the horizontal ones, narrow on the vertical ones), they tend to return toward their defaults, getting a bit bigger each time something changes (a login, switching desktop resolutions, anything that forces plasma to recalculate sizes). That one I happened across on bugzilla before I noticed it here, but it's certainly frustrating. According to that bug, plasma fails to account for the size of a bit of the trim, or some such, reading it one way and writing it the other, so that each time it rereads, the panel grows a bit. It's reasonably likely that there are other similar sizing and location related bugs, one of which it sounds like you have. FWIW, 4.2.4 was barely getting usable enough for me to switch from kde3 (and that's after I spent huge amounts of time customizing it and working around issues still there, while in the process of switching from kde3), but each new version continues to fix vast amounts of bugs still there in kde4. 4.3 was definitely a measurable improvement over 4.2.4, with the incremental 4.3.1 fixing at least one bug that was very bad for users (including me) with older graphics cards that are already struggling with graphics in 4.x, so it was a sizable improvement here as well. What I'm saying is that even if you're on a distribution that normally doesn't provide updates to "stable" packages within a single distribution release, I'd strongly recommend upgrading kde shortly after it comes out upstream. (Wait a week and check the forums if you are a cautious type, to see if anyone's howling about something breaking.) Really, at least for now, every kde release is a serious bugfix release, and upgrading is likely to be worth it. At least consider the major 4.x updates (starting from 4.x.1 if you're the cautious type), as knowing how much better 4.3 is relative to 4.2, it pains me to see folks still struggling with 4.2 issues, some of which I know are fixed in 4.3. As I said 4.3 does have an issue similar to what you're describing, but given the rate of improvement and the fact that I don't know otherwise, it really is possible the bug you're describing is fixed in 4.3.0 or 4.3.1. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.