Re: Change the Position of an disk icon on the desktop
Re: Change the Position of an disk icon on the desktop
- Subject: Re: Change the Position of an disk icon on the desktop
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:57:05 -0700
At 03:25p -0700 10/03/2003, Christopher Nebel didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On Oct 3, 2003, at 12:25 PM, Michael Slomski wrote:
set thePos to position of disk 1
will get values which are not the position of items on my desktop
but of the window of the desktop folder in users.
Changing positions will change the location of the items in that
window, but not on the desktop itself (OS X 10.2.8). Perhaps it is
fixed in Panther or broken with the .8 Update?
No, that is working as designed, as they say. There was an HI
decision made some time ago that icon positions on the desktop and
icon positions in the window of the desktop folder should be
independent,
That is understandably logical...
and the scripting property reflects this: "position" refers only to
the position in the window.
...although the usefulness of that is pretty small compared to the
usefulness of the position on the actual desktop.
There is currently no way to set the desktop position of an item,
though there is a bug filed on that.
Where does it stand priority-wise?
Do you know where the Finder records the desktop positions? Is it
possible to set up a brute force method while we await the finishing
of the Finder? (And when are those "not available yet" dictionary
entries going to be addressed?)
thanks,
-Walter
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