Re: snap to grid feature

[Reginald Melchisedek Poyau <melchisedek earthlink net>]

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 16:54, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> 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;
> }

That is not really handling that case.  The desktop is not like a
regular scrollable folder, hence there is physical limitation on how
many icons that can fit on the desktop with no overlap;  This is the
case extreme case I am refering about.  Plus nautilus icon setting
function already clips out of bound icons anyway.
> 
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