I still think the string could be improved some, maybe @ngraham has an idea.

But the question is can this land in 5.17 given it's a string change? (albeit just a revert)

"rows of as many columns"

I'm afraid I still have no idea what this means! :) Can you explain what it actually does? Then maybe we can come up with a clear string together.

In D24534#544703, @ngraham wrote:

"rows of as many columns"

I'm afraid I still have no idea what this means! :) Can you explain what it actually does? Then maybe we can come up with a clear string together.

Yeah that was me as well when I made the string change :)

But I think(?) I understand now. I think it says "look, you've defined the maximum no. of rows/columns, do you want me to arrange tasks in as many columns/rows as you've just defined".

I can't quite come up with something that doesn't sound clunky, but IMO we don't need the "always".

After playing around with this option with my IOTM at various panel widths and various "maximum rows/columns" values, I still cannot for the life of me figure out what on earth it does--or else the feature is so buggy I'm unable to discover the pattern.

Original commit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123738/

(following it through quite a few renames)

From what I can tell, it's akin to the direction property in a Flow

Idea for a better string: "Fill each row/column before adding tasks to the next row/column"

FWIW Plasma 5.17 tars were already made so if we want this in Plasma 5.17.0, in addition to landing it on the stable branch, @jriddell will have to do some release magic to include it and you'll want to ping him about that.

In D24534#544785, @davidedmundson wrote:

Original commit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123738/

(following it through quite a few renames)

From what I can tell, it's akin to the direction property in a Flow

I guess "Always arrange tasks in columns of as many rows" was meant to be "Always arrange tasks in columns of as many rows as possible". However this still sounds complicated.

Plasma folder view has a similar algorithm for arranging icons (either top-to-bottom or left-to-right), here is how to access it in the UI:

Do we have a green light for 5.17.1? How do I tag the translators?

@aspotashev is a translator and he's approved, so I'd say you're good to go.

Before pushing new i18n strings into stable branches, you need to ask for permission in https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-i18n-doc

Altough one translator's approval is enough, writing to kde-i18n-doc is also important to notify the other translation teams for them not to miss the update.