Default desktop icon order

[Coldfirex]

I think the default desktop icons should be ordered a little better (obviously subjective).

Right now we have the harddisk, space, BeBook, home, Quick Tour, space, User Guide, and then trash.

Unless it is a legacy thing, I would propose that we at least order the documentation items together\next to each other.

Maybe something like: harddisk, home, Trash, space, Quick Tour, User Guide, BeBook?

[pulkomandy]

The order is:

• Drives first
• Other icons
• Trash last

Within each group it is sorted in alphabetical order. Spaces are inserted as needed to avoid the icon labels overlapping with each other.

This is the default behavior for Tracker with a bit of special handling added for the Desktop (drives and trash management).

There are two ways to handle this:

• Patch Tracker icon ordering code to have more special cases for the desktop and hardcode all these "special" files. This will also work for alt+shift+K (auto reorganize) but it seems a lot of special casing that will not make sense after the user starts adding their own icons
• Just create the attributes on the Desktop file on the initial release image to move things to the right place manually.

I think it is simpler to keep the alphabetical order. I don't mind moving Trash upper in the list. And maybe the sorting should differenciate directories (like home) from files, I think the code for that is there, but it fails because home is actually a symlink and not a directory?