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

Bug #32577 reported by reh4c
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #12608: 'keep aligned' does not work right. Edit Remove
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Nautilus
Confirmed
Low
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

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.

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reh4c (gene-hoffler) wrote : Desktop Icons Not Evenly Arranged

Please see original bug.

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Martin Bergner (martin-bergner) wrote :

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.

Changed in ubuntu-meta:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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reh4c (gene-hoffler) wrote : Icon Arrangement Flt 5

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

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essexman (ralphsmail) wrote : Icons not aligned after startup

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

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Aristotelis Mikropoulos (amikrop) wrote :

I can confirm this on Ubuntu Gutsy, GNOME 2.20.1.

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Aristotelis Mikropoulos (amikrop) wrote :

I can confirm this on Ubuntu Hardy, GNOME 2.22.1.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Medium → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Aristotelis Mikropoulos (amikrop) wrote :

I can confirm this on Ubuntu Hardy, GNOME 2.22.2.

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Dylan Thacker-Smith (dylan-smith) wrote :

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.

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Michał Karnicki (karni) wrote :

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.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Medium → Unknown
status: Invalid → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Low
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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