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Bug 560788 - Keep Aligned right click menu option should not allow desktop icon overlap
Keep Aligned right click menu option should not allow desktop icon overlap
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 129937
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-14 13:05 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2015-06-10 05:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24

Attachments
I like my desktop to look like s* they said (819.72 KB, image/gif)
2015-06-10 05:36 UTC, Electric Prism 		Details

Description Pedro Villavicencio 2008-11-14 13:05:02 UTC 
this bug has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/292465

"After checking the keep aligned setting on the desktop, dragging icons should not allow overlap. Instead, dragging icons should rearrange them into neat columns"

screenshot:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19211989/desktop%20icons.png

Thanks,
Comment 1 Yann 2010-01-15 05:14:46 UTC 
Confirmed on Ubuntu 9.10
Comment 2 Yann 2010-01-15 05:36:37 UTC 
related to Bug #129937,  Bug #332298 and Bug #601469 (where there is a patch to try).
Comment 3 Yann 2010-03-30 03:53:33 UTC 
Dear all, please see Bug 613111
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2012-09-19 22:42:14 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 129937 ***
Comment 5 Electric Prism 2015-06-10 05:36:16 UTC 
Created attachment 304916 [details]
I like my desktop to look like s* they said

If you can find the icon with the name "waldo" within 10 seconds you win. If you can't - I win and Icons on the Desktop should follow some sort of SANE grid layout where icons aren't a cluster f*