Bugzilla – Bug 114267
gnome desktop keep aligned function not really working
Last modified: 2006-03-06 23:15:31 UTC
When I first installed beta3 and I logged on for the first time, I though I didn't see correctly... the home directory icon was not aligned with the trash and the computer icon on the desktop (was a bit to the right)... I didn't pay too much attention and went forward. Now saving various files on the desktop I noticed it more often. Whenever I save files, although the keep aligned option is selected, the icons/files on the desktop are not really aligned (align to grid is also selected somehere... don't remember where :)). If I save around 10 files on the desktop, they're kept aligned. Starting from around the second row from the left edge, around middle of it, they start being placed sideways from the normal icon row... (see screenshot). Daniel
Created attachment 48240 [details] Icons on desktop not aligned despite keep aligned option selected
This doesn't happen only with images, but with any other file that is saved as (firefox, thunderbird, gimp) and it only happens with one random file (sometimes it happened in lower left corner, sometimes middle of the second row).
Odd. I'm not seeing this. The one odd thing everyone sees (distinct from what you're seeing, AFAIK) is the gap above the Trash icon, which has to do with the Trash icon having several states (full, empty, lid up) and the need to leave space for the "lid up" state. I'm pretty sure this is different, though.
I've saved more files on the desktop, from firefox, thunderbird, and they were kept aligned (I only saves a few of them anyways). Then I started saving the same image from gimp 12 times one after the other without doing anything else, just save as. As you will see in the attached screenshot, the images are not aligned on the desktop, but some of them moved sideways, for more or less obscure reasons. The keep aligned option in desktop properties is still there... and the files/icons and their names are not that big to actually push the icon on the same line with them further away... I think... Daniel
Created attachment 48289 [details] desktop icon un-alignment, take 2
Also notice the strange arrangement of picture names... I saved them in their named order, but after 8, pic nr 9 should have been saved somewhere instead of pic nr 10, but it was pushed upwards somewhat in between the columns, while pic nr 10 was after 8 but moved sideways... seems a bit strange behavior to me, but cannot pin point to a logical reason...
Created attachment 50846 [details] another screenshot with icon not aligned another screenshot with icon not aligned, maybe makes more sense since it goes out of the screen... maybe the problem is here somewhere...
Other noticed behaviors... three pdf's saved on the desktop, their proportions quite different (one is wide and short, the other is tall and narrow, the third is almost square) while their alignment is on their left edge of the preview icon on the desktop (normally they should be somehow aligned to center on a virtual desktop column).
Created attachment 51465 [details] another screenshot with icons not aligned on the desktop
I don't see this - is this still occurring in 10.0 final?
Yes, tested it in 10.0 final, the box version, updated from a 10.0 RC1.
Federico, is this a duplicate?
Yeah, it's a duplicate of the general "bad icon placement" bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130796 ***