From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 02 08:01:15 1999
From: Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 08:01:15 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: desktops -does it make sense? (fwd)
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On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:37:19 +0200
> From: Espen Sand <espensa@online.no>
> To: Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna@total.net>
> Subject: Re: desktops -does it make sense?
> 
> I can currently not send from the address from which I am subscribed:
> (fwd if you like)
> 
> One thing that I occasionally need and have been asked about: Support to save
> the desktop icon layout (positions) I don't know how the desktop icons can be
> placed in 2.0, but if they will not be confided to a grid, then this becomes
> more important.  It is easy to mess up icons in the MS-world, and no easy
> way to restore them while keeping the preferred layout at the same time.

It is possible to write an algorithm that moves the icons so that they do not
overlap but stay roughly where they are.

--Stefan