icon positions on screen resize (was: Re: [PATCH] Don't set lazy icon position during directory load)

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 17:21 -0600 schrieb Federico Mena Quintero:
> 4. The screen shrunk since the last time you used the desktop (i.e.
> switch to a lower resolution)?  There are two options:  scale *all*
> icon
> positions proportionally, risking overlaps but more or less retaining
> the "shape" of the original positions; or just clip the old
> coordinates
> so that the icons fit in the screen.

Well, another option would be to completely separate the icon positions
at different resolutions, because you may want to have a different
layout for a 640x480 screen size, than you have for widths over 1000. I
already toyed with this idea and came up with a patch (not yet
published) that modifies the get-stored-icon-position and
icon-position-changed code act for desktop icon containers, i.e. it
would include the icon positions in the metadata keys.

IIRC there is also a bug report about changing font sizes which leads to
overlapped icons because the icon positions are fixed and the font
rectangles overlap the adjactent icons.

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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>