Re: [Nautilus-list] snap-to-grid feature I'd like to write

[Alex Duggan <alex openup com>]

Hi Darin,

Where are the positons of the user's desktop icons stored?  How hard
will this feature be to write?  I'm just looking to write a snap-to-grid
for the desktop just like gmc has.

Alex

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 12:04, Darin Adler wrote:
> On 12/20/01 8:05 AM, "Alex Duggan" <alex openup com> wrote:
> 
> > I've been a nautilus user since 0.1 and I think I'm finally ready to
> > attempt to contribute something back.  I would like to write a
> > snap-to-grid feature for the nautilus desktop.  I feel this is a very
> > important feature that has been missing for far too long.  I'm not very
> > familiar with the nautilus source.  Could someone give me a few pointers
> > on where to start and what generally I want to do to code this.
> 
> Source files to look at are libnautilus-private/nautilus-icon-container.c,
> which implements the widget used for the rows of icons,
> src/file-manager/fm-icon-view.c, which is the place where that container is
> actually used for icon views, and src/file-manager/fm-desktop-icon-view.c,
> where specialization for the desktop is done.
> 
> Icon positioning is a particularly challenging area of Nautilus to work in.
> Good luck! Let me know if you have any specific questions.
> 
>     -- Darin
> 
> 
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