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Bug 129937 - desktop icons don't align to grid
desktop icons don't align to grid
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 332298 472289 560788 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-24 09:10 UTC by Enver ALTIN
Modified: 2018-01-02 18:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Enver ALTIN 2003-12-24 09:10:41 UTC 
Icon themes differ by their icon height, and icons on the desktop gets
unaligned back even if Keep Aligned option is selected.

Nautilus needs to somehow Auto-realign desktop icons to grid on icon-theme
changes when desktop is kept aligned :)
Comment 1 Ace O 2006-08-06 11:00:11 UTC 
Id love to see this bug fixed if I may just chime in, keep up the good work I love gnome, its just the little minor things that are buggin me :D
Comment 2 Jonathan Pritchard 2009-11-11 02:09:16 UTC 
I too just wanted to chime in and say that currently even in GNOME 2.26.1 with "Keep Aligned" checked, it doesn't update dynamically if you move around icons out of place. It needs to be forcing icons to the grid position (even though it isn't really a grid at the moment).
Comment 3 Yann 2010-01-15 05:21:21 UTC 
related to Bug #601469 . I confirm this bug on Ubuntu 9.10
Comment 4 Yann 2010-03-30 03:52:35 UTC 
Dear all, please see Bug 613111
Comment 5 André Klapper 2011-08-11 12:11:47 UTC 
[Bumping version number as per comment 2]
Comment 6 William Jon McCann 2012-09-19 19:59:13 UTC 
*** Bug 472289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 William Jon McCann 2012-09-19 22:08:17 UTC 
*** Bug 332298 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 William Jon McCann 2012-09-19 22:42:14 UTC 
*** Bug 560788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Daniel Boles 2017-08-19 14:32:49 UTC 
As of 3.22 it looks like Nautilus does enforce horizontal alignment, but it lets things be positioned anywhere vertically and does not align them.
Comment 10 Daniel Boles 2017-08-19 14:34:37 UTC 
I guess that could be related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350719 - though I'd expect alignment on a grid to work properly in both the main and secondary orientation in any case.
Comment 11 António Fernandes 2018-01-02 18:50:20 UTC 
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature. For better alternatives, read this blog post https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/nautilus-desktop-plans/