I agree with this wholeheartedly...I would really like to see this feature =
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KDE 3.1.

I think what would be really cool is if the desktop icons would line=20
themselves up when you drag them around (as suggested by this wishlist item=
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but also, if kdesktop would figure out what spacing to use automatically.=20
Right now, when you line icons up, KDE sticks them all in the upper left=20
corner (I like my trash in the lower right).

The 3.0.1 behavior was better than the current CVS behavior...it lined thin=
gs=20
up and kept them in approximately the right places, but sometimes it would=
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use weird spacing, and my trashcan would show up, say 50 pixels above the=20
panel and 15 pixels away from the right side of the screen. This looks ugly=
,=20
and should be fixed somehow. I only have a vague idea how this might be don=
e,=20
but Windows XP handles icon placement very nicely (and even accomodates for=
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different taskbar sizes and making everything line up without putting the=20
recycle bin way up).

I've been toying with writing a patch for this, but I don't think I know=20
enough about KDE to do it right.

(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/35/35469.html)