https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513742
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |--- Status|NEEDSINFO |REPORTED --- Comment #4 from [email protected] --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > Does it stop periodically happening if you uncheck "Folders first"? Having set "Sort by" as "Manual", both checkboxes for "Descending" and "Folders first" are disabled and cannot be changed. So these are the exact steps I did: 1. Set "Sort by" -> "Name" 2. Disable "Folders first" 3. Set "Sort by" -> "Manual" 4. Finally apply changes and click OK After that I re-arranged the icons exactly like the first attachment of the initial post [before_scatter.png] and proceeded to do a few session locks, sign outs, display re-connections and the icons seem solid. But wait! Desktop icon related problems have been longstanding in KDE Plasma (as I initially described) and I have some thoughts as to not completely waste this already open issue (only for another one to potentially be opened later on): 1. How are we sure that this was the actual culprit? I'm not familiar with KDE's codebase, hence I unfortunately cannot verify that myself. However, it would greatly benefit everyone if you (or someone with such experience) could check out whether or not the "Folders first" codepath messed up the icons while ignoring the "Sort by" -> "Manual". That'd be interesting too, as the checkboxes are clearly disabled. That brings me to... 2. Why is this default behavior? As initially stated, I removed every last piece of KDE related configuration before trying the plasma-desktop 6.5.4 release. Shouldn't it be completely disabled or (even better) ignored when "Sort by" is either directly set by the user or (as I'm assuming) automatically set when an icon is moved? Again, this is another thing that should be double-checked with the respective code segments. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
