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Android-Like Widget-snap option

Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:16 am
This would be an option to automatically snap widgets to a defined grid when organizing the desktop.

Generally, grid-spaces would probably be ~ 100px x 100px, with some leeway calculated to make the grid fit the resolution of the screen.

Because widgets have pre-defined sizes already, it would probably just round up the size of the widget to fit the size of current grid-squares. Holding shift when moving could break a widget from the grid.

Overall, taking a cue from Android could help better-align widgets and keep things looking uniform.


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Re: Android-Like Widget-snap option

Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:31 pm
I really like this idea, perhaps even add the jellybeans-introduced features where widgets/plasmoids shift location on the fly to allow fitting of a new plasmoid (but then it would need a way to throw away the plasmoid without missing up the layout...hmmm)
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Re: Android-Like Widget-snap option

Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:50 pm
Isn't this what the Grid desktop (activity) is supposed to achieve?
imo, that should be the default over the free-form desktop, as I would imagine that more often people will care about getting things aligned than be bothered by the restrictions imposed by the grid.


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Re: Android-Like Widget-snap option

Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:38 am
Yeah, this should be very good, I'd be happy to have this feature. Good one there.
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Re: Android-Like Widget-snap option

Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:21 am
Hey,

That sounds great ! I´m interested in this idea, are there any further approaches? That feature would be amazing!
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