Re: desktop icon mess patch

[Mark Finlay <sisob-lists tuxfamily org>]

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:00, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 18:43, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > When a user shows the nautilus desktop for the first time, currently the
> > home and trash icons get stacked on each other in the top left corner. 
> 
> That's sounds quite awful.
> 
> > The core issue behind this is a problem with size-allocation of
> > BonoboPlug/Socket
> 
> I'd like there to be a bugzilla bug about this so that the issue doesn't
> get forgotten, and I think this patch should add a comment saying that
> it's a workaround.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120213 for the icon issue -
but it makes no mention of the undelying issue so may not be what you
were looking for.

> 
> > , which means the desktop is realized at 60x60, and
> > then later re-realized at the correct size. This has caused lots of
> > issues in the history of Nautilus, and the desktop code is sprinkled
> > with workarounds for this problem. Apparently the new desktop icon code
> > introduces another issue, where the in-memory objects are "loaded"
> > before the desktop has been realized at the right size so they get laid
> > out in 60x60 pixels.
> > 
> > Here is a patch I just put in the RH packages to work around this. Its
> > hacky, but this is a nasty problem. Should this go into 2.4?
> 
> I think we have to hope that it works, and you've tested it at Red Hat.
> I guess that it would be quite obvious if it was making it worse. 1
> approval of 2, I suppose. Well done.
> 
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> Murray Cumming
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