https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358990
--- Comment #29 from Roman Bysh <rb03...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Eike Hein from comment #25) > > At this moment in time, in order to place icons in the order that I like, I > > have to delete them all and then place them one at a time. > > I'm not sure I follow the "I have to delete stuff" thing - Folder View on > the desktop supports dragging icons into any position on the grid at any > time. This ticket is about wanting to move icons outside the grid. Which is > currently not supported, but certainly a legitimate wish. > > > > You had this superb folder plasmoid that allowed many features and crippled > > it for Plasma 5. > > No, we had a folder plasmoid with many, many bugs that had been mostly > unmaintained for two years prior, and was written against a Qt 4 API that > can't be used in Plasma 5, turning the entire code obsolete. The Plasma 5 > version shares no code with the KDE 4 version. It's a full rewrite. Off-grid > positioning wasn't removed, it was not implemented. > > > > Is this what the devs decided what was best for users coming from KDE4? > > Yes, don't you know that all we do all day is sit around and think how we > could hurt our users best? That's totally my first thought when I get up in > the morning. I went into open source and spent 11 years hacking on KDE > (mostly for free, for many thousands of hours more than you probably did) > because I'm a real meanie, and making software that doesn't cost any money > seemed the most effective way to make the world a bit worse, release by > release. > > There's totally never any engineering reasons in play. Like, say, finite > manpower, or finite hours in the day, or deciding on a core feature set that > can be supported at a higher quality level than before. Every time there's > change you personally don't like it's because that was the goal. Totes. > > Do you feel patronized or pissed off by the above two paragraphs? That's how > others feel when you write your implicitly antagonistic fight-the-powa > stuff, too. Think about that next time you think it's cute to make that your > narrative, or think shaming/guilting people is a good way to motivate them > into doing what you want. > > > > We have thousands of users that are very disappointed. > > Who's we, and what's the raw data backing that statement? That would > actually be really helpful for triage. Sorry about the rant. It was never my intention to shame or guilt anyone into working on their code. After reading the comment on a new day, I realize that my comments were way out of line. I did not know that the code was that messed up from KDE4. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
