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Bug 559688 - Too many icons on the Desktop should not overlap
Too many icons on the Desktop should not overlap
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-07 02:39 UTC by bi2h5da02
Modified: 2012-09-19 18:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description bi2h5da02 2008-11-07 02:39:28 UTC 
If you more icons on the desktop than it can fit (accident, low-res remote desktop, etc.) it piles all the excess icons on top of each other in the corner, making them impossible to work with.  Possible solutions:

1. Add a scrollbar to the desktop
2. Allow the desktop to have "pages" with arrows
3. Hide the extra icons and instead provide a link that opens up a normal Nautilus window to the Desktop folder
4. ...

Other information:
Comment 1 bi2h5da02 2008-11-07 02:40:33 UTC 
Filed from discussion at https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/291203
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-11-07 09:56:50 UTC 
The only one I would like is your third proposal, but I don't know if this makes any sense at all.
Setting as enhancement.
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2012-09-19 18:38:04 UTC 
I think this is one of the reasons why the desktop metaphor doesn't work. It completely breaks down and doesn't scale. Doesn't work at all for "no filer" types. There isn't much we can do here. This is one reason we don't show the desktop by default anymore. It is truly a bug but not one I think we're going to spend time to fix since the desktop is deprecated.