Re: "Keep Aligned" mode in nautilus

[Ben Davis <ben xsusio com>]

> >  * sort by [type, name, etc]
> >  * do not show "Home" icon [y/n]
> >  * do not show "Trash" icon [y/n]
> >    
>
> I'm not sure how useful these would be to most people.
>  
I've seen quite a few posts in other forums where people are wondering 
how they can remove the "home" and "trash" Icons, or possibly rename 
them....  Also I would love to be able to arrange my desktop icons by 
type rather than by name. Since icon appearance is determined by type, 
it's much easier to find one when they're sorted by type.. 

Are we ever going to have the ability to "clean up by ____"  whether it 
be name, type, size, or whatever?? What about having a right-click 
option that says "Clean up by... " and have a sub-menu that lists all 
the options.. kind of like how windows does it (pls don't hurt me) :-)

> >  * allow user to specify "fixed" icons, for instance,  "home" icon 
> > stays at (x,x) position,
> >     "trash" icon stays at (x,x) position,  "Documents icon stays at 
> > (x,x) position"
> >    
>
> Getting a good ui for this sort of thing seems tough.  I think it would
> be kinda neat to have a desktop layout mode that put special icons in
> special places, but I haven't thought much about the best way to do
> that.
Actually, now that I think more about it, the best way to do this is to 
be able to right click an icon and check something that says "lock 
icon's position" so that if I do a clean up by name or type, it won't 
move that icon. What do you think about this?