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

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn letterboxes org>]

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)