[dx2] Favorites view | Scattered layout | Overlapping icons incorrectly placed after restarting

[m_anish]

Testcase:

1. Open favorites view

2. Select scattered layout, icons are randomly placed

3. Try to drag one activity icon over another

(Sugar intelligently places them one next to another and not overlapping)

4.A Restart sugar
OR
4.B. Try dragging the icons one over another again

5.A. Icons reduce in their size
AND/OR
5.B. Icons overlap and cover each other up

Seen on Dextrose and sugar-jhbuild

[walter]

I cannot reproduce this on the 0.90.1 Sugar on Fedora 14 or in sugar-jhbuild.

[walter]

Note that this patch was never applied. It doesn't address this specific ticket, but it is a much cleaner implementation of the spiral code than is currently in mainline.

​http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/2235/0001-a-more-succint-approach-to-the-spiral-morph.patch

Note that this patch applies to the 0.88 version of favoriteslayout.py

[walter]

I still cannot reproduce the overlap problem, but the problem with shrinking is failing to account for the increase in the maximum size of the icons in the Ring View.

The question is, what should be the size of the icons in the Random View? Should it track the size in the Ring View?

[m_anish]

bug reproduced in jhbuild (fast h/w required to play gif image)

[m_anish]

Replying to walter:

I still cannot reproduce the overlap problem, but the problem with shrinking is failing to account for the increase in the maximum size of the icons in the Ring View.

The question is, what should be the size of the icons in the Random View? Should it track the size in the Ring View?

<walterbender> silbe, m_anish: re #2592, it was decided to keep the Random icons always at 'Standard Size'
<m_anish> walterbender, but the current behavior is that the icon size gets reduced?
<walterbender> m_anish: only if you start with large icons
<walterbender> m_anish: if the icons are never large, they won't shrink
<walterbender> m_anish: I introduced the regression when I make the icons large by default.

[dnarvaez]

Very old, unreproducable bug.