https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492301
--- Comment #2 from Fernando M. Muniz <fernandommu...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > This kind of behavior is waaaaaay too specific to have a user-facing option > for. So we would either do it universally, or not at all. > > So when you drop a file on top of another file, we could in theory move the > other file out of the way. However this opens a huge can of worms: what if > the other file can't move out of the way because it's surrounded by other > files; do all of them move too? What if this causes a row to overflow; > should the entire row move to another or, or should just the items at the > end move to another row? What if that row is full as well? > > The possibilities here are quite endless. And even if we managed to account > for all of them, is this really a behavior that makes sense? I don't think > so. If I drop a file on another file and the rest of my whole layout can > shift around as a result of it, that could be unexpected and quite > disruptive. If I've arranged my files and folders just where I wanted them, > now I have a mess to clean up. > > I don't think we can do this, sorry. Alternatively it could simply make the file go back to its previous position if it would otherwise result in more than a single row of them. This one would have better predictability. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
