Re: Revisiting the Icon View UI

[<bordoley msu edu>]

The snap to grid issue is sort of peripheral to this issue. Though I would 
really like to see it implemented for manual layout and it is an often 
requisted feature. I believe someone or maybe a group of people have begun to 
tackle this bug.

dave 

David Moles <david moles vykor com> said:

> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 10:22, bordoley msu edu wrote:
> > 
> > Opinions? I really find the current ui messy and would like to help out 
> > fixing it for the 2.2 to 2.4 time frame.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is covered by what you described or
> not, but what I'd like is Mac-style snap-to-grid -- where you
> can manually arrange the icons, but they go to the nearest
> grid position. This is somewhat different from Windows-style
> where the grid isn't allowed to have empty positions.
> 
> (I'd also like to see some way to access every layout-related
> menu item from the desktop contextual menu, but that may be 
> another issue.)
> 
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