Re: snap to grid feature

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 22:15, Reginald Melchisedek Poyau wrote:
> Your are correct; Although I dont think the codes are being used at all.
> I am very much interested in doing snap-to-grid layout for nautilus.  I
> would like to get some feedbacks on how snap-to-grid should look and
> behaves when one moves icons around to new positions;  Checkout WinXP
> desktop snap-to-grid behavior.

well how should layouting look:

personally i like the way how windows does snap to whatever. my personal
opinion:

a) an option where the user can select if he wants the icons snaped to
   grid when moving them around on the desktop. or having a manual
   layout.

b) having the right mouse popup menu show a 'snap to grid' entry.

c) something i personally dont like is the way how kde does snap to
   grid. i am more the pixel exact kind of person and don't like it much
   if the icon group top right gets differently layouted as the few
   icons that i may have at the bottom left.

> http://llanero.eresmas.net/nautilus/nautilus-align.png
> here columns and rows hights and width are set by icon with max
> hight/width.  Icons are also aligned verically at their respective
> horizontal centers.  Icons of different sizes will align very nicely,
> but this is not the most efficient layout space wise.
> 
> So far this the type of snap-to-grid I like.
> 
> Questions I have:
> 1) What should nautilus do when it runs out of grid cells
> 	* I will not handle this case at first

thats easy...

0.0

                    1024,768

here some pseudcode thingy....

if (x < 0) {
  x = 0;
else
  do the layout thingy;
}

if (y < 0) {
  y = 0;
else
  do the layout thingy;
}

if (x > maxscreensizex) {
  x = maxscreensizex - lastgridx;
else
  do the layout thingy;
}

if (y > maxscreensizey) {
  y = maxscreensizey - lastgridy;
else
  do the layout thingy;
}

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