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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Broken "Line Up Icons" in recent CVS HEAD
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-07-28 12:47:03
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 02:14, Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
> On Saturday July 27 2002 15:13, you wrote:
> > no, the orientation belongs with the action. the user wants to line up
> > the icons vertically, not set it to arrange the icons vertically the next
> > time they ask it to line them up and then line them up. this was the
> > problem that existed when the setting was in the kcontrol, except there
> > is was even harder to find.
>
> This is not lining up the Icons, but instead rearranging them vertically or
> horizontally!!!

the vertical/horizontal aligment respects your sort setting (by name, type, 
whatever). more to the point: how would seperating the actions from settings 
change anything?

> But do whatever you like, You can't make me angry :-).
> I can still line up the icons in a grid with:
>
> "dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface lineupIcons"

this is exactly what happens if you select the same the same line up option 
more than once (e.g. go to "line up vertically" and then "line up vertically" 
again). if you call the same alignment twice it simply calls lineupIcons() 
... if you change the direction, it sets the direction to whatever you picked 
and then calls the rearrange method (which orders by name, etc..)

there was a problem in a previous commit in that i had made 
horizontal/vertical radio actions, which was wrong because the user will want 
to line up their icons repeatedly.

so cvs update and take a look: the behaviour is exactly equivelant to what it 
was previously. only now the settings aren't scattered all over god's green 
earth, and actions and settings are combined (exactly as they are with 
rearrangement, btw..)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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