Felix Miata said the following on 05/18/2013 12:22 AM:
Thanks for trying, but no grok based simply on order presented. I was able to get FF into nearby location, then rearrange nearby icons to make it end up where I wanted. It refused to drop in between file manager and Konq, but fell into place after deleting activities icon and then deleting file manager icon.
Well OBVIOUSLY! You were expecting a liner movement when the reason it was jerking around is that the if was reshuffling those. Not everything is the same width and if you move a 16px wide which is on the right of a 200px wide object then there's going to be a jump/jerk as they "swap places". All of a sudden the 16px is 200px to the left! JUMP! JERK! NONLINEAR! Now add in some things are 'stretch-to-fit-available-space' or otherwise elastic. Now add in each widget can have other attributes ... Now add in the panel can have attributes ... Now add in there can be spacers - and they can be elastic too ... Yes, the resulting behaviour/interaction can be non-intuitive. And it doesn't help that you cannot see many of the widgets (like spacers) or things like task managers that are 'empty'. So you have to find out that they are there and what their effects will be. Just like everything else in life and non-trivial software :-) -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org