Hi Mark - I agree that it is not entirely useful, but I don't think we should eliminate it until we have a solid "Snap to Grid" implementation which would allow users to move their icons around to an order they choose yet still maintain a sense of aesthetic pleasure... -jag On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:41, MArk Finlay wrote: > Manual layout is obviously vital on the desktop, but is it really > necessary in the file manager? Does anyone really manually lay out > their icons in a file manager window? > > The reason I ask is because we have had discussion about removing the > "Would you like to switch to manual layout" dialog that most of us > see almost every day. A lot of people have expressed a desire to > remove this dialog, but that doesn't mean that they want nautilus > to automatically switch to manual layout, more that they don't > want to see that dialog when they change their mind about a dnd > operation. > > So I would propose that we remove manual layout mode in the file > manager all together, unless anyone has any compelling reasons to > keep it. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Adam Ginsberg Cellphone: 970.749.8530 Rice University '02 Email: joshg myrealbox com St. Mark's School of Texas '98 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin ---------------------------------------------------------
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