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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] desktop icon grid
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2006-07-18 5:19:48
Message-ID: 44BC6F74.5070401 () acm ! org
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Eike Hein wrote:
> Matt Rogers wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps you could explain what's wrong with the feature to begin
>> with? I don't understand how this is a usability issue,
> 
> The desktop context menu has a "Icons -> Align to Grid" toggle
> action, and then there's "Configure Desktop -> Behavior -> File Icons
> -> Automatically line up icons". As far as I can tell, both set the
> same setting.
> 
> Unfortunately, KDE 3.5.3 regressed and broke "Align to Grid". AFAICT,
> switching the setting off and on again fixes it temporarily (i.e. for
> the session),

Yes, I tried that and you are correct.

> which may give rise to the impression that the context menu action
> and the config dialog checkbox are two indepen- dent settings that
> both need to be active for align-to- grid to work. This isn't so.

So, it is a bug and the only usability issue is that if they both do the
same thing that they should both have the same string.

-- 
JRT
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