[opensuse-kde] Folderview icons rearranging - bug or feature?
So, I've managed to use folderview (and autofs) to get more or less the functionality I need on KDE 4: I've set up a twinview desktop, with folderviews on both screens. The right one points to the desktop folder so I can use the "create link to" tool. Now, I don't fill my desktop with icons (I use the panel for that): I set up icons on the right side of the screen to access the DVD and my partitions and network shares (that work well now that I have understood autofs config). Remains one (little) problem: whenever I add an icon (e.g. to access a card reader or a new nfs share) or edit an icon, when I am finished all icons on the folderview are "re-arranged" on the left side. There seem to be no option for "don't reorganise", and although "lock in place" is activated, this only prevents me from putting the icons back where I want them! I searched Google but did not find anything (recent) about it. So does anone know if this is considered a feature (after trying to ban icons from the desktop at least keep then in order :)? Or could this be a bug? The best I can get is to choose "Arrangement - Top to bottom" but it still messes up the icons (I like to have the DVD icon on top, but because it's names "DVD" it get's re-organised at the bottom! Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Fredag den 17. september 2010 23:52:07 skrev Thierry de Coulon:
Remains one (little) problem: whenever I add an icon (e.g. to access a card reader or a new nfs share) or edit an icon, when I am finished all icons on the folderview are "re-arranged" on the left side. There seem to be no option for "don't reorganise", and although "lock in place" is activated, this only prevents me from putting the icons back where I want them!
It's a bit unclear to me if you're talking about the folderview widget or the folderview activity (windows 95 mode). With 11.3/kde sc 4.4 and the folderview widget I cannot reproduce. In the context menu under "Icons" I set "arrange in grid" and none of the sort radiobuttons are selected. I moved a bunch of files and folders around, added new ones, clicked "refresh view" - and everything stays in place for me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 18 September 2010, Martin Schlander wrote:
It's a bit unclear to me if you're talking about the folderview widget or the folderview activity (windows 95 mode).
With 11.3/kde sc 4.4 and the folderview widget I cannot reproduce.
In the context menu under "Icons" I set "arrange in grid" and none of the sort radiobuttons are selected. I moved a bunch of files and folders around, added new ones, clicked "refresh view" - and everything stays in place for me.
Yep, we need a place to get the definitions of those terms. I have no idea what "Windows 95 mode" is (I have not used Windows 95 at the time...). I have one activity. A first computer runs the 32 bit version, one activity, one FolderView per screen. In "Desktop settings - Plasma Workspace", the "activity" tab says:type Folder View (is grayed, can't edit). the "Location" tab is different for each screen. On the left screen it shows an empty folder in Home, on the right screen it shows the Desktop folder. On the 64 bit install, there is only one screen, one activity, of the FolderView type, showing the desktop folder. Both computers have been upgraded to the latest factory version (4.5.1) On the "Display" tab I have (for both computers): Arrangement: Top to Bottom, Right to left (this is just because all other choices are worse. What about a "do not arrange" option?") Sorting: unsorted Previews is set Lock in place is set Align to grid is set The icons on the activity/FolderView are all "Links to Location (URL)", actually links to the mounting points of the DVD drive (/dvd), data files and video files (/data and /video) and nfs shares (/net/<mount point> managed by autofs). If I uncheck "Lock in place", I can arrange my icons the way I like (DVD, Data, Video, nfs shares, vertically, Top to Bottom, on the right of the screen). If I turn "lock in place" on again, the icons are protected against accidental move, they go back where they were. Now, if I add an icon, everything is fine on both computers: the existing icons remain where they were, the newly created one follows the arrangement rule. If I edit the name of an icon (right click on it, properties, edit, OK), it works OK on the 64 bit install. On the 32 bit install however, once I click Ok after renaming, all icons are re-arranged. Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On 17/09/10 22:52, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
So, I've managed to use folderview (and autofs) to get more or less the functionality I need on KDE 4:
I've set up a twinview desktop, with folderviews on both screens. The right one points to the desktop folder so I can use the "create link to" tool.
Now, I don't fill my desktop with icons (I use the panel for that): I set up icons on the right side of the screen to access the DVD and my partitions and network shares (that work well now that I have understood autofs config).
Remains one (little) problem: whenever I add an icon (e.g. to access a card reader or a new nfs share) or edit an icon, when I am finished all icons on the folderview are "re-arranged" on the left side. There seem to be no option for "don't reorganise", and although "lock in place" is activated, this only prevents me from putting the icons back where I want them!
I searched Google but did not find anything (recent) about it. So does anone know if this is considered a feature (after trying to ban icons from the desktop at least keep then in order :)? Or could this be a bug?
The best I can get is to choose "Arrangement - Top to bottom" but it still messes up the icons (I like to have the DVD icon on top, but because it's names "DVD" it get's re-organised at the bottom!
Thierry
It's a bug in KDE 4.5.x. Please add a comment to the following so KDE devs are aware it's happening to more than one unlucky person: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249937 -- Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday September 18 2010, Vadym Krevs wrote:
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It's a bug in KDE 4.5.x. Please add a comment to the following so KDE devs are aware it's happening to more than one unlucky person:
Done.
Vadym
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 18 September 2010, Vadym Krevs wrote:
It's a bug in KDE 4.5.x. Please add a comment to the following so KDE devs are aware it's happening to more than one unlucky person:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249937
-- Regards, Vadym
Done. Thanks for confirming it was a bug. Regards, Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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