Adjusting Icon Grid Size in KDE 3.3

wswartzendruber

How do you adjust the desktop icon spacing in KDE 3.3?

EDIT: Yes, I have looked on the net and can't seem to figure out where it is.
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wswartzendruber · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject:

Okay, I've found the configuration file in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals, but it completley ignores any GridYSpacing when I add it in below the already-existing GridXSpacing.
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wswartzendruber · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject:

Am I to understand that no one else is having this problem, or that no one else cares?
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snuffer · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 207 Location: Israel

I have it also. Although i dont have GridXSpacing in that file.
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wswartzendruber · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject:

The problem?
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snuffer · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 207 Location: Israel

The desktop icon spacing problem.
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gearmonk · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 43

I saw this issue posted in a KDE mailing list, bug report or in the weekly CVS digest. Not sure exactly where, otherwise I would link it.

Seems that the setting for GridXSpacing in the config file is used normally, but GridYSpacing is currently hardcoded into the desktop. The reasoning seemed to be that the current value won't break horribly for any known icon set/size combination, even if it looks a little ugly.

This is going to be fixed, but it looks like the devs wanted to make sure they could properly account for Grid Spacing being smaller than the icon sizes, or something like that. The needed changes therefore couldn't be included in the final release due the code freeze.

Hope that clears it up a bit

rfujimoto · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 195

Just to add on it, here's the bug report at bugs.kde.org -- How quickly it became hated, it's 3rd right now... which kind of puts things into perspective... I mean it's hated more than 'incorrect font rendering' hehe ...

lordan1971 · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject:

In addition to *large* iconspacing, I've found another annoying thing. Can somebody confirm this? I'm using a child panel on top of the screen. When the child panel pops up, it pushes the icons down. The problem is that this puts the icons in two columns instead of one. I've solved it by laying icons out horizontally. But if others are experiencing this as well I'll report it.

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

When I sort icons with a top child panel, the icons get partially covered by the top panel.

lordan1971 · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject:

I had that problem as well for a while (I think it was with the betas). But now the top panel pushes the icons down. As this happens, some of the icons get "squeezed out" to the right and end up in a second column.