Re: PATCH for some random stuff.

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

Correct me if i'm wrong but the patch i did simply ignores the drag if
the user is using sorted layout (no switch of layout is done). So this
is a non-issue right.

dave

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:35, David Emory Watson wrote:
> One reason for this dialog can be inferred from the last line, where it
> says: "This will clobber the stored manual layout".
> 
> One reason for "clobbering the stored manual layout" is that it might
> seem strange if all of the users icons suddenly moved around after they
> executed one drag and drop operation...
> 
> So *if* we wanted to remove this dialog, we would also need to address
> these issues.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 15:35, Dave Camp wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 03:10, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > > Finally I removed the oh so annoying switch to manual layout dialog.
> > > Basically this dialog pops up on me daily and i find it pretty annoying
> > > (i think other users do too). IMHO when I choose to use automatic
> > > layout, I have made my choice. I don't need nautilus constantly asking
> > > me if I want to change. Removing this dialog make nautilus's behavior
> > > consistent with that of Mac OS finder as well.
> > 
> > Yeah, this dialog can be pretty annoying, but I wonder if someone put it
> > there for a good reason.  Were users having trouble finding a way to
> > switch to manual layout?  Were they getting confused when they would
> > drag an icon to an empty space and it would snap back?
> > 
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