https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358418
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] | |m --- Comment #37 from [email protected] --- The absence of this feature, on its own, is enough to make me consider switching to some other desktop. There is a lot to like about KDE, but I beg of whoever: please let me put my desktop icons (and widgets) where I want to put them. It seems like there used to be a workaround to allow this, but now even that is gone. Even *Windows* lets me turn snap-to-grid off, and since when has Windows been more customizable than Linux? This is the kind of parity feature that is needed, if we really want more people to switch from Windows. I understand that many people like snap-to-grid and feel that it leads to cleaner, more readable, better desktops, and there's nothing wrong with that, but that's not me. I do not like "clean" or "minimal" or "modern" aesthetics. I want my desktop to look like the top of my real life desk: messy, but free, and cozy for it. With my things exactly where I put them. I find it easier to keep track of things and where I put them when they aren't in a perfectly even, perfectly bland grid. I miss being able to make an icon visually stand out from the others just by where I choose to place it. And it is so frustrating when I am unable to align my icons with my wallpaper of choice. This mandatory snap-to-grid desktop just feels claustrophobic and arbitrary to me. Also, the snap-to-grid behavior is horrendous when combined with icons that have long, untruncated titles. I keep finding myself having to make several attempts to move a file, because for the first few attempts, it somehow fails to find and snap to a location anywhere near where I'm trying to put it, and instead it snaps all the way back to where it was before, or - worse - it snaps to some new and totally random location on the other side of the screen from where I'm trying to put it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
