[plasmashell] [Bug 418339] Improve default icon arrangement on desktop

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418339

Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
Personally I don't have strong feelings about the default setting. I came from
macOS where the icons are in columns by default but I don't recall even
noticing the difference between the Mac desktop and Folder View.

Arranging in columns is consistent with the desktop arrangement on other
platforms, but inconsistent with the default arrangement in our file manager.

Arranging in rows is the opposite. 

So we're always going to be inconsistent with *something*, which makes a
consistency argument harder to make since you then need to prioritize one of
those things to be consistent with and provide justifications for why it's the
more important one.

I can see the merit in the argument in particular that arranging in columns
makes more sense for landscape displays because it decreases the distance to
reach most icons, and makes it easier to access the desktop icons when a file
manager window is also open, because it's easily to avoid overlapping any of
them with the window. This is in fact a very minor irritation  of mine and I
see now that arranging in columns resolves it.

CCing VDG for further comment.

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