When pasting a file through the right-click context menu onto the desktop, I am in the habit of right-clicking where I actually want the icon to appear (I believe Windows pastes where the user's cursor is). Instead, Gnome seems not to take the user's cursor position into consideration at all, which may present a small usability issue, or at least fails to meet user expectation.

So, for example, the user might have icons arranged in a particular way scattered across the desktop. They may position their cursor towards the middle right of the screen, right-click, select paste, and then the icon shows up at the top left or jumbled in somewhere else if there are lots of icons to the top left. So the problem is twofold -- 1) The user has to paste and then take the extra action of moving the icon, and 2) The user may have difficulty finding the icon in the first place because Gnome does not always place it in the most predictable way if there are icons crowded in at the upper left.