Small patch

[Alexander Schwinn]

Dear Jean-Pierre,

thanks alot for your contribution!
I am not sure if we currently have a maintainer for xfdesktop. 

In any case it is good idea to open bugzilla bug on bugzilla.xfce.org for your feature and attach the patch there, to be able to track ongoing process and for further discussion.

If I find time in the next days, I will give it a spin.

Cheers,
Alexander Schwinn


Am 4. Dezember 2018 11:48:19 MEZ schrieb demailly <Jean-Pierre.Demailly at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>:
>
>Dear Xfce team members,
>
>First, many thanks for Xfce. I have been using it for many years (I do 
>
>not even remember, 12-15 years ?) You'll find attached a small patch  
>that gives some additional flexibility when handling icons with  
>xfdesktop.
>
>Actually - very long ago - my wife had a Mac and was used having new  
>files / new directories / new devices being shown on the right edge of 
>
>the screen, as she likes having a dock on the left side. This may  
>"conflict" with icons appearing very close to the dock, on the top  
>left corner of the screen. Unless I am mistaken, with the current  
>xfdesktop-4.13.2 version, icons appear from top to bottom and from  
>left to right (in this order of precedence), and there is no way to  
>change the default behaviour - of course, one can always drag icons  
>with the mouse to assign their position elsewhere on the desktop, but  
>I believe this should part of the configuration options. The enclosed  
>very small patch allows this : it adds a new "gravity" parameter to be 
>
>managed by xfconf, namely an int in the range 0..7 that changes the  
>default behaviour of icon placement. The gravity parameter corresponds 
>
>to three boolean flags, with the followind predefined values
>#define GRAVITY_HORIZONTAL 1
>#define GRAVITY_TO_LEFT    2
>#define GRAVITY_UPWARDS    4
>(thus, one gets 8 different modes in total). At least, one can use  
>xfce4-settings-editor to adjust the options (but you might want to let 
>
>the options appear as well in the GUI, xfce4-settings-manager >  
>Desktop > Icons )
>
>The patch is for xfdesktop-4.13.2, I guess it would essentially work  
>also with the older xfdesktop2.12.4.
>
>Best,
>Jean-Pierre Demailly
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