Bug 24271

Summary: Plasma desktop icons require the same amount of desktop space regardless of size
Product: Mageia Reporter: Thomas Andrews <andrewsfarm>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: KDE maintainers <kde>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: marja11, wilcal.int
Version: CauldronKeywords: 7beta2
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Thomas Andrews 2019-01-31 22:51:29 CET 
Description of problem:
Imagine a grid of possible positions for desktop icons in Plasma. Each icon requires a certain amount of space, and they can't overlap. 

With previous versions of Plasma, when the size of the icon is reduced, the grid changes so the amount of space needed for each icon is reduced, too. As of Round 2 of the beta 2 isos, the size of the icons themselves can be changed, but the grid of possible positions does not change with it.

I recall that a somewhat similar problem showed up when Mageia 6 was in Cauldron, but I have no idea what was changed to fix it.
Thomas Andrews 2019-01-31 22:51:53 CET

Keywords: (none) => 7beta2

William Kenney 2019-02-01 01:31:15 CET

CC: (none) => wilcal.int

Marja Van Waes 2019-02-03 08:51:51 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => kde
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 1 Thomas Andrews 2019-02-04 13:22:20 CET 
This may be a "feature." 

Further experimentation shows that the amount of space allocated for each icon, especially horizontal space, is determined by the settings for Plasma's General font, which is the font used for the text underneath the icons.
Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2021-05-17 01:15:36 CEST 
Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as OLD.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD