Re: "Keep Aligned" mode in nautilus

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Murray Cumming Comneon com">

> > From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:jdub perkypants org] 
> > > Put it all in a folder and sort it. Nobody's desktop needs to get that
> > > complicated.
> > 
> > Murray, that's a really unproductive, pointless and thoroughly
> > inaccurate comment.
> 
> But I'm serious. I guess I was thinking about just the desktop, and it
> might be worthwhile to arrange an icon-view of a folder just as you can
> sort a list view. But even then, I do think you should switch to a list
> view when you want that much order.

Perhaps you're misunderstanding the feature (which, by the way, already
exists in Nautilus): It means tidying the contents of the desktop up, and
sorting it by name.

> Does the Mac have an "Arrange-icons-by-sorting-by-anything" feature? It
> doesn't sound like it's needed by the vast majority of people, and not
> really needed by the minority either.

Absolutely. Both the Windows desktop and the MacOS Finder desktop have these
features (as well as clean up without sorting).

- Jeff

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