https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354802
--- Comment #179 from Uwe Dippel <udip...@gmail.com> ---
@Zyansheep, alas, no. Thanks for #177, but we deal with a different item here.
I cannot fathom that we have so far not had a single reply from KDE e.V. on how
to handle the desktop in case of variations in the real estate. There seems to
be no explicit rule. Once real estate grows, the icons are left where they are
w.r.t. 'Zero' of X, that is (0,0) == upper left corner. Not necessarily nice,
though working.
If, however, real estate shrinks, there also seems to be no other rule than
just not to discard the icons for which the locations might be gone. So they
will be splattered (with a process unknown to me) across the remaining real
estate.
I didn't follow the design decisions of - by now - a decade ago. Maybe those
people have moved on by now.
Whatever, though, and maybe I am wrong here, until today nobody of the relevant
authority has decided on or published a rule on the handling of (mostly) icons
on the Plasma desktop in case of changing geometrical properties.
Therefore, this bug is not one of code which could be rectified with a certain
ease. The bug is - I know, I only repeat myself - a bug of the design
('architecture'). As long as no rule is set out, there is no code possible in
this world to implement that rule.
Of course, I have been available to discuss some possible rules plus their
consequences; in order not to just be a nay-sayer. Though, I am not aware of
any serious attempts to advance by the KDE project in this respect.
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