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Idea #1125: Align icons horizontally

Written by kwixbit the 29 Feb 08 at 08:34. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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This is not a Ubuntu-related problem, but having an option to order icons horizontally on the desktop would be a nice feature!
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Written by kwixbit the 29 Feb 08 at 08:34.
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garferi wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:21
Ya, it's a very annoying problem and I don't understand why wasn't fixed yet.

brettalton wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:57
Thanks for attaching my thread post =)

My workaround is to make a standard 48x48 (or whatever dimensions you like) grid that forces the icon to be a certain size and constrains the text so it doesn't overlap other icons.

Windows 95+, in this (rare) case, actually has done something correct.

I believe Xubuntu (XFCE) has this functionality as well.

kwixbit wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 10:28
Would be nice to have more votes as it is a really nice idea, or not?

garferi wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 16:24
I always post this URL in end of my all post on www.ubuntu.hu
I hope it will be fixed soon.

ranja wrote on the 30 Jan 09 at 04:50
This is annoying but a big turn-off when I am demoing ubuntu to a newbie.

TheHappyMarquis wrote on the 23 Mar 12 at 16:23
why the f is this still not fixed? how many more years?

this is the damn reason ubuntu isn't mainstream, I hate the people who are doing this to ubuntu

TheHappyMarquis wrote on the 23 Mar 12 at 16:42
We've had this shit for 8 years now, this reeks of corruption.

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody is paying off high placed developpers to divert manpower to other things and maintain small but important flaws.

This bug is one of the biggest newbie turn-offs I know about.

Microsoft would lose milions every year if ubuntu went mainstream. It's natural to assume they'd legally but discretely pay off some people as part of risk managment(typical in economy) and important unsolved bugs like this one are proof of this.


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