the grid on desktop is much too fine

[Thomas Rusche]

it is commonly known that if you have quite a lot of items on desktop after some days/weeks, the arrangement (if you allow them to be "fixed") of them looks quite strange or at least not unitary. it's the fault of the much too fine invisible grid, which is ought to arrange the items to positions. the minimal distance between 2 objects on desktop is MUCH to low. take it twice, and it is much nicer...

e.g., you can try another point: you can arrange tons of items above another?!! what?! kiddin me...

another point is the preview - function for jpg's (very nice indeed). but it is the same... it looks not unitary after a while.

i give a comparison:
compare a full desktop of windows XP with a full desktop of gnome or ubuntu if you want.
which looks more tidily? obviously the one from windows.

please don't get me wrong, i like the preview function a lot. but to make it look better and unitary (to give the user a better impression), somehow this grid has to be made with bigger distances.

p.s.: sorry for my bad english

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems a duplicate of other open bugs about desktop icons alignments issues

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I'm rejecting this as a paper cut because reworking the desktop is quite some work and not something that is trivial to fix. However, I'm ONLY marking this as a Invalid in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project.

For more information on what a paper cut is, please take a look at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut>.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Since this issue was reported upstream previously I'm marking this bug as Triaged.