Re: "Keep Aligned" mode in nautilus

[Ben Davis <ben xsusio com>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> > From: Ben Davis [mailto:ben xsusio com] 
> > Are we ever going to have the ability to "clean up by ____"  
> > whether it 
> > be name, type, size, or whatever??
> >    
>
> Put it all in a folder and sort it. Nobody's desktop needs to get that
> complicated.
Damn, I really hope you're not a Gnome developer or top decision maker,  
because it's exactly that kind of attitude that makes applications 
suck.  Every user has unique needs and unique preferences, and while you 
can't meet them all, you certainly DON'T have to leave out a feature 
simply because you think your way of doing it is better. But if I must 
explain, then:

I use my desktop as a temp or "unfiled"  folder.  Everything gets 
downloaded to my deskotp and dragged to my desktop when I don't have a 
place for it.  Word documents, images, tarballs, whatever.  When I want 
to clean up my desktop, and (for instance) I want to take all my word 
docs and file them away, i hate having to go through all the files when 
they're not sorted by type, it's much easier to be able to arrange them 
into groups and them deal with the files that way. Excuse me if that's 
not the way you think I should organize my desktop. It's the way I've 
always done things and I'm not likely to change my habits just because 
someone thinks I should do it their way.

Saying "Nobody's desktop needs to get that complicated" is like saying 
"Nobody's ever going to use more than 128k.." or "Why would you need a 
gui? just use command line!".. I mean, why would the top selling desktop 
operating system use the exact same "arrange icons by..." method that 
I'm talking about??   They obviously found some good reason to allow 
users to do this. And any user switching from windows to  linux will 
tell you the same.