*I really don´t know why so many complication about something so simple. I´ve tested the same issues in other operating systems and nothing happened in this sense. I did not take a look at the sources codes, but I suppose that when the desktop or window is divided by grid cells, only one object or icon could be in a cell. In what situation is interesting to support more than one object in a grid cell since there are sufficient cells? Every time some operation try to put an object in a occupied the cell, the system try to find the nearest empty one. What are the complications about it? * 2010/8/12 Bill Smith <snowman...@gmail.com>
> I did some more work on this recently, particularly relating to icon > bounding boxes. I tried to find any bugs by adding code that generated > frames through Cairo, and it seems the bounding boxes are actually > correct, as shown in my screenshot. It seems the actual issues arise in > collision detection (at least in my patches). Instead of marking parts > of a grid, which only partially works, I tried checking for collisions > between bounding boxes directly. This seems to work well, but I still > notice a couple of instances of overlap that I can hopefully fix. > > > ** Attachment added: "IconBoundingBoxes.png" > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/40872/+attachment/1487143/+files/IconBoundingBoxes.png > > -- > Desktop icons are allowed to overlap > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40872 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug (400197). > > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid > Status in Nautilus: Confirmed > Status in nautilus-elementary: Confirmed > Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > > Bug description: > I have some icons with long file names. Sometimes I unintentionally end up > with completely illegible icon labels and overlapping icons. I have created > a snapshot of my intentionally horrific example. > > This problem is easy to reproduce when working with file previews > (irregularly shaped images) and icons with long file names. Just create > some and drag them close together, paying attention to not trigger the a > file move event. > > I have noticed what I consider to be a related problem. When I remove a > file from my desktop or a new icon is added as a result of some program > adding an entry, the desktop isn't refreshed with autoarranged icons. I > have looked and looked and can find no way to make this my desktop's > behavior. I think this is terrible UI from a usability standpoint. I will > attach the image showing the problem. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/40872/+subscribe > -- Desktop icons are allowed to overlap https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40872 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs