Comment 8 for bug 40872
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| Brett Alton (brett-alton-deactivatedaccount) wrote Re: Desktop icons are allowed to overlap horribly | #8 |
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I can't believe I read that: "is there any reason to prevent users to manually make their files overlap if they want too?"
YES! You should prevent people from doing so; It's extremely ugly and unprofessional. Xubuntu and Windows XP both have invisible grids that icons snap to. Say if the grid has squares that were 64x64 pixels each and it were mandatory and automatic for Ubuntu to resize desktop icons (but with the ability to disable) to 56x56 (INCLUDING the text), then there would be 8 pixels of padding all the way around. This way no text would overlap and neither would the icons. If one square was taken, but the user tried to drap an icon overtop, the icon would not be allowed to move there, or as in Windows XP, it would shift that icon, and then rest below it, one more square down. If the icons reached the bottom of the grid, they would then shift one column to the right, and begin at the top again.
(Please note that I'm not sure of the exact sizes of the icons or grids, and am aware that they would be relational to the display resolution)
I'll create a composition in Photoshop or Flash if anyone is confused.