Re: RFC: Rethinking icon auto-arranging for the spatial metaphor

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Tue, 2004-14-12 at 21:40 -0500, Dave Ahlswede wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 13:24 +1300, Douglas Royds wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps this is already covered, but I'd also like to see a 
> > manual-arrange with automatic lining-up-to-grid. What I'd like to be 
> > able to do is drag the files into my preferred order, but have Nautilus 
> > automatically line them up on the nearest grid point, moving others down 
> > as necessary.
> > 
> > This would be useful with digital photos, allowing me to order them 
> > within the folder according to my taste, and allowing scanned photos to 
> > be ordered in amongst photos that have been time-stamped by a digital 
> > camera.
> 
> Or, perhaps, use the same grid spacing as the desktop window does. (I'm
> under the impression that the snapping grid is a little less coarse in
> the current development version, which I'm happy about)
> 

Have you created a bug for it? I took a quick look in bugzilla and
couldn't find one.

Cheers,
Ryan