[patch] desktop grid #79932 (was: desktop icon text lines)

[David Faure]

On Sunday 28 November 2004 20:15, Martin Koller wrote:
> On Saturday 27 November 2004 15:50, Martin Koller wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 November 2004 21:03, David Faure wrote:
> > > Personally I'm for committing the "make it configurable" patch.
> >
> > I did that now, but have seen, that I have to also solve the general
> > problem with #79932 
> <snip>
> 
> Finally I have a solution:
> 
> Attached you'll find a patch which solves 
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79932
> 
> The approach is based on what I described in my previous mail, but again here 
> my idea:
> 
> The user can already define the icon size he likes to have. He can also select 
> the font he wants to have on the desktop. With my previous patch, he now also 
> can select how many lines of text he wants to have.
> But what is missing, is the possibility to select how _wide_ the text can be.
> With this setting, we have all information to calculate a good fixed size 
> grid.
> 
> The width can be defined in kcontrol in the background/advanced dialog (same 
> as the text lines)
(I still think this is a bad location for it, see bug #93549, but that's Waldo+Aaron's fault)

> This is a better solution than simply define a fixed size for the grid, 
> because with my approach you can simply play around with different icon sizes 
> and font sizes, and you still get a good grid.
> 
> Waiting on your feedback ...
Looks ok to me. I agree that we need a fixed size grid for kdesktop, that's the only way
we can (re)implement e.g. "align to grid" correctly.

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