Space for icons super wide - Desktop trashed

Hi!
Latest update to TW (KDE, 64bit) changed the appearance of desktop icons dramatically by requiring about TWICE the width on the screen as before, completely disrupting the desktop. I looked under “Settings”, changed size of icons, fonts etc. but nowhere I can adjust the width of the “protected area” around the icons on the “folder view” desktop.

Completely disrupts the desktop, no productive work possible. Any ideas how to change back to appearance before this innovation took place? Many, many thanks in advance!

OK, in FolderView.qml a minimum icon width is calculated with some factor 8. Changed to 3 and the desktop in back to normal.

Bad news: any update to plasma will require to manually fix this again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

May I cite a KDE user

So Do I understand right that we all are asked to fiddle around in some  source files every time the Plasma packages are updated, just to get a  user friendly desktop?
I would not call this a solution but a confession of failure

source: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=136447

I fully agree…

Starting from today I saw the first Leap 15.0 desktop trashed the same way! Thank you very much!

Happy Eastern then…

PS: Location of FolderView.qml is

/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/

Hi
Storm in a tea cup… looks like it’s fixed? 403094 – Implement a slider to control horizontal grid spacing

…on my Tumbleweeds I have fixed it since January at least 4-5 times after zypper dup (on EACH computer). I have a bookmark in root-Dolphin for the location of the FolderView.qml and a copy of the corrected FolderView.qml on the Desktop. But you have to log out- log in again (or restart VNCserver on headless machines). So: It still sucks.

What was really new was that now Leap starts also…

Am I the only one in the world using folder view on the KDE desktop? Or does nobody care for the ultrawide desktop icons? :smiley:

I was hit by this too. Do they have no QA at all? I found that 4 was actually the best match to the previous appearance.