Re: PATCH for some random stuff.

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

I don't know since I haven't tried your patch, but I suppose your right
since Dave Camp's response does suggest that the icon will snap back. 
Sorry...

Originally I was thinking that we would just switch to manual layout
mode (so as to avoid any confusion between the operation of the desktop
and the individual windows).  This would be more "inline" with your
original argument (i.e. instead of "if I wanted manual layout I would
manually change it" we could say "if I wanted auto layout I wouldn't
drop icons in strange places").

In any case, I do think the HIG is right about unsolicited dialogs.  And
maybe your right about removing this dialog too (e.g. I have seen my
brother fumble with it).  I guess I just think that we need to be
careful when we change things that others obviously did *on purpose*.

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:53, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> 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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