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Desktop icons are surprisingly hard

Gamedev, FOSS, programming, stuff.

I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code (the oldest of which was from 2013) that handled positioning Plasma desktop icons, and how this data was saved and loaded. Code has tendency to get a bit weird, especially over long periods of time, and especially in open source projects where anyone can tinker with it. Then when you'd turn the screen back on, the icon positioner would wonder what just happened and restore the proper stripe number and size.

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