Re: PATCH for some random stuff.

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Based on the conversation of the 3 daves on irc last nite (watson,camp
and me), I'm only proposing this change as a short term annoyance fix
for the icon view. In the long term I think we need to do some usability
studies to determine how to make the icon view just work.

some ideas that we threw around include:
1.automatic layout ala windows(apparently is hard to do with icon
stretching)

2. always use manual layout, ala the mac and than just implement all the
sorting options for manual layout ala the current arrange options.

We obviously need to think long and hard about this.

dave

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 17:41, David Emory Watson wrote:
> I don't know since I haven't tried your patch, but I suppose your right
> since Dave Camp's response does suggest that the icon will snap back. 
> Sorry...
> 
> Originally I was thinking that we would just switch to manual layout
> mode (so as to avoid any confusion between the operation of the desktop
> and the individual windows).  This would be more "inline" with your
> original argument (i.e. instead of "if I wanted manual layout I would
> manually change it" we could say "if I wanted auto layout I wouldn't
> drop icons in strange places").
> 
> In any case, I do think the HIG is right about unsolicited dialogs.  And
> maybe your right about removing this dialog too (e.g. I have seen my
> brother fumble with it).  I guess I just think that we need to be
> careful when we change things that others obviously did *on purpose*.
>