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Bug 172128 - Autosorting desktop icons
Autosorting desktop icons
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 324631 341034 563734 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-30 17:02 UTC by Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy
Modified: 2018-01-02 18:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy 2005-03-30 17:02:42 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu (Hoary)

I think a lot of people would find it useful to be able to keep icons on the
desktop sorted in alphabetical order (as in automatically place new icons in
proper alphabetical order) with options to make folders go before files and
devices before folders.
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-04-03 12:35:08 UTC 
the current behaviour is to have folders before files, isn't it ?
Comment 2 Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy 2005-04-04 00:38:27 UTC 
Yes, when you click "Clean up by name" you get folders first if that option is
enabled in nautilus. What I meant was automatic sort that doesn't require you to
resort things every time you add a file to the desktop.
Comment 3 Matthew Lenz 2005-04-08 18:43:59 UTC 
it should also support some kind of snap-to-grid functionality for placing icons.
Comment 4 Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy 2005-04-08 18:47:49 UTC 
Nautilus already supports snap to grid. Just check "Keep Aligned" in the desktop
context menu.
Comment 5 Daniel Holbach 2005-12-05 19:48:26 UTC 
This feature is asked for in http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14044 as
well.
Comment 6 Daniel Holbach 2006-12-22 15:47:33 UTC 
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/20284 nowadays.
Comment 7 Cosimo Cecchi 2007-12-30 11:57:55 UTC 
*** Bug 341034 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Vincent Untz 2008-12-08 23:21:45 UTC 
*** Bug 563734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 William Jon McCann 2012-09-19 22:05:14 UTC 
*** Bug 324631 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 António Fernandes 2018-01-02 18:50:27 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/