[Suggestion] Desktop Grid

[liclac]

One of the things that annoys me about Nemo's (and Nautilus') desktop is that there is no proper "grid" of icons, only columns. Both Windows and OS X let you keep a neat grid of icons on the desktop, but with Nautilus/Nemo, your desktop ends up looking very messy if you have a lot of icons, since the rows won't be straight.
If you could add a setting to enable a proper grid with horizontal rows, it would be greatly appreciated.

[mtwebster]

Thanks :)

[MiY4Gi]

Seconded. And what would also be nice is the ability to adjust the size of all the icons collectively (Currently icons can be adjusted individually, but it's near impossible to adjust all the icons to the same size This can be tricky since the grid column/row size should preferably be adjusted as well, in accordance with the scaled icons. And then there should also be an option to adjust the desktop font size. I think this all ties in with the Desktop grid idea. Should I open a separate Issue and reference this one?

[mahajanudit]

Thank you so much for pointing it out.
This has been bugging me and a lot of people out there for so long. I have even been trying to work around nautilus code to figure out how to correct this and I think I am close.
On a separate note this can be fixed by a greater extent by setting text ellipsis to "1" in dconf settings for desktop.
The name of the icons are just limited to a single line though, but it does look neat though.

[simonwiles]

to be honest, I've never missed this functionality myself, but friends and relatives who I've introduced to Mint ask about this very regularly.

[DuMuT6p]

I`m not sure if this should be added on this issue, but an option to truncate long icon names would also be great.

[hosef]

I would like this also. It makes my desktop look very messy to not have this.

[29821632]

Also options to adjust the grid margin and exposing desktop icon/font size prefs in the UI would complete Cinnamon.

[StanleyKrute]

In priority order, I'd like to see :

a. Adjustable horiz. and vertical spacing for the icon grid
b. Global icon sizing
c. Options for wrapping or truncating long icon text labels so that they fit within the grid and thus don't overlap other icon text labels

Thanks to everyone for supporting this common-sense icon grid feature request.

There is an option to organize desktop icons by name, on the right click menu. This option also aligns all the icons vertically when it is used. However, one may not need to arrange the icons by name in order to keep them also vertically aligned. Also the vertical alignment should be done automatically (like the horizontal one).

[spacekookie]

KDE has it, XFCE (!!) has it being a super lightweight environment. Windows 98 had it and every release since, OSX has had it since the mid-90's. I can't get it into my head why any modern desktop environment (cough GNOME3, LXDE, Cinnamon, MATE, ……) wouldn't implement this.