"Keep Aligned" on GNOME desktop doesn't align all icons properly

[reh4c]

Even with "Keep Aligned" selected for the desktop, all icons are not uniformly aligned. Please see the screenshot. I'm using Ubuntu Dapper Flt 4. Thanks.

[reh4c (gene-hoffler)]

Please see original bug.

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

Hi,

I can confirm this bug, when you drag an item from a folder to desktop, you can place it at any place you like.

I will open a upstream bug about this.

[reh4c (gene-hoffler)]

Bug continues with Flight 5. It's not a showstopper, but does fall under the "polish" category.

[essexman (ralphsmail)]

This began occuring after "removeable media" (anaother bug) were automatically added to the desktop. Even after aligned, Icons will"re-un-align" themselves on freash start-up

[Aristotelis Mikropoulos (amikrop)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu Gutsy, GNOME 2.20.1.

[Aristotelis Mikropoulos (amikrop)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu Hardy, GNOME 2.22.1.

[Aristotelis Mikropoulos (amikrop)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu Hardy, GNOME 2.22.2.

[Dylan Thacker-Smith (dylan-smith)]

It appears to be the snap size that is the problem for keeping the icons aligned. I am not at all familiar with the code, but I did notice that the constants for snap sizes are 78 pixels horizontally, and 20 pixels vertically.

I changed the vertical snap size from 20 to 80, and it gave me a nice grid to work with for placing icons.

One more thing to note is that icons can be placed in the same grid location and overlap. Is this considered a separate bug?

I am attaching a patch against nautilus' svn repository. Feel free to use it as is, or use a different constant.

[Michał Karnicki (karni)]

Hi,

Is there any simple way to apply the "patch against nautilus' svn repository" ? I'm not a total noob, but I'm not familiar with the svn. I could even to it manually, but I don't know where to look for the file (and recompile?). Please help, I'd love to use that patch.