Re: [Nautilus-list] implementing a snap-to-grid for desktop...

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Wednesday, July 25, 2001, at 11:24  AM, Jamin Philip Gray wrote:

> First of all, is there technical reasoning behind disallowing any of the
> standard icon sorting methods available to the standard directory view
> on the desktop such as "sort by date", "reverse order", etc.?

There's at least one reason. With a fixed size window, if you lay out in 
some sorted order, some icons can end up off screen. Once they are off 
screen, there's no reliable way to get them back. In some cases, you would 
never be able to get the icons back.

    -- Darin