Suggestion of small patch for xfdesktop

[Alex]

Dear Jean-Pierre,

in order to keep track on what happens with your patch, best open a bug
for it on https://bugzilla.xfce.org/ and attach your patch.

Regarding the fix, just from reading your mail:
I would use one enum with 8 values instead of three booleans. If a
setting can be expressed as a single value, I would do so .. makes
handling simpler and does not raise the number of settings to much.

Thanks alot for your contribution !

Cheers,
Alexander Schwinn


On 07/27/2018 08:51 AM, demailly wrote:
>
> Dear Xfce team members,
>
> 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-4.12.4 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 three new
> booleans to be managed by xfconf, gravity-horizontal, gravity-upwards,
> gravity-to-left that change the default behaviour of icon placement
> (thus, in 8 different ways in total). At least, one can now use
> xfce4-settings-editor to adjust the options (one might want to let
> the options appear as well in the xfce4-settings-manager > Desktop >
> Icons
> but this will require further additions.)
>
> The patch is for xfdesktop-4.12.4 which is what I run, I guess it
> would be
> very easy to port to 4.13/4.14 as well.
>
> Best,
> Jean-Pierre Demailly
>
>
>
>
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