https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365010
--- Comment #3 from Eike Hein <h...@kde.org> --- Ok, so the problem here is that free icon dragging is currently only allowed in desktop mode, but not in widget mode. This is not a hard technical limitation. The reason it is that way is that free positioning is costly performance-wise, and not having it in the mix makes the view much simpler and enables it to handle much larger directories much easier. With the desktop we can make the assumption that it's not likely to be used to show a huge directory by most users, but with the widget I wanted it to be snappy when used that way. Basically there's three options: 1. Find ways to make the free-positioning mode scale better, to avoid the performance penalty, then enable free positioning in widget mode 2. Enable free positioning anyway, hoping the performance penalty doesn't matter for most users, then spend time on #1 later 3. Make it an option #3 is super undesirable because adding options that could (maybe) be avoided with other work is lazy. #1 is a resource/manpower question but most desirable. #2 is the compromise and hard to make a decision on without good metrics on how users use Folder View. I came down on the safe side, but I'm open to reevaluating that. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
